This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … panel estimator framework to evaluate the sign and direction of causality between them. We observe no increase in bank … efficiency. This suggests that measures to increase bank competition in the Chinese context are not detrimental to efficiency. …

There has been a notable debate in the banking literature on the impact of bank competition on financial stability … providing the first empirical investigation of the role of bank competition on the occurrence of bank failures. We analyze this … issue based on a large sample of Russian banks over the period 2001-2007 and employ the Lerner index as the metric of bank …

The aim of this paper is to analyze bank competition in Russia by measuring the market power of Russian banks and its … determinants over the period 2001-2007 with the Lerner index. Earlier studies on bank competition have focused on developed … countries whereas this paper contributes to the analysis of bank competition in emerging markets. We find that bank competition …