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 …

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 …