-sized enterprises (SMEs), this study seeks to identify the effect of bank market power on aggregate growth components. We test for a pre …-crisis sample whether bank market power spurs or hinders the reallocation of resources across informationally opaque firms … in Germany. The results show that bank markups spur aggregate SME growth, primarily through technical change and the …

mitigate competitive pressure. We test if the use of information technology (IT) contributes to bank output, and how IT …-augmented bank productivity relates to differences in market power. Detailed bank-level information on the use of IT reveals a … substantial upward bias in bank productivity estimates when ignoring banks' IT expenditures. IT-augmented bank productivity …

We test how bank market power influences technical change and resource allocation of informationally opaque firms. We … identify the effect of bank market power using the dependence on external finance per industry and the regional demarcation of … generate useful private information. Bank market power spurs both technical change and reallocation of resources, but it …

Recent developments on international financial markets have called the benefits of bank globalization into question … necessarily made banks less risky. Yet, surprisingly little is known about the actual link between bank internationalization, bank … countries tends to increase bank risk. Fourth, the impact of internationalization differs across banks from different banking …

We test how bank market power influences technical change and resource allocation of informationally opaque firms. We … identify the effect of bank market power using the dependence on external finance per industry and the regional demarcation of … generate useful private information. Bank market power spurs both technical change and reallocation of resources, but it …