costs and market equilibrium to infer the degree of competition. Our theoretical findings are confirmed by an empirical … analysis of competition in banking, using a sample containing more than 100,000 bank-year observations on more than 17 …

This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This … approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … competition can consider the entire banking market only. A caveat of the Boone-indicator may be that it assumes that banks …

This paper analyses the impact of loan market competition on the interest rates applied by euro area banks to loans and … deposits during the 1994-2004 period, using a novel measure of competition called the Boone indicator. We find evidence that … stronger competition implies significantly lower spreads between bank and market interest rates for most loan market products …

Incluye bibliografía ; This paper analyses the impact of loan market competition on the interest rates applied by euro … area banks to loans and deposits during the 1994-2004 period, using a novel measure of competition called the Boone … indicator. We find evidence that stronger competition implies significantly lower spreads between bank and market interest rates …