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 …

paper, we empirically investigate whether bank liquidity creation fosters economic growth in a large emerging market, Russia …. We follow the methodology of Berger and Bouwman (2009) to measure bank liquidity creation using a rich and exhaustive … economic growth for Russian regions in the period 2004–2012. Our results suggest that bank liquidity creation fosters economic …