Economic integration on the EU banking markets is expected to favor competition, which should provide economic gains …. However, even if there is a commonly accepted view in favor of enhanced bank competition during the last decade, no study has … competition in all EU countries during the 2000s. We estimate the Lerner index and the H-statistic for a sample of banks from all …

This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … competition over the period, even as cost efficiency improves. In a departure from the empirical literature showing that … competition negatively granger-causes cost efficiency for Western banks, we find no significant relation between competition and …

Economic integration on the EU banking markets is expected to favor competition. However no study has been performed in … the 2000s showing this trend. In this paper, we aim to fill this gap by measuring the evolution of bank competition in all … competition in the EU. However, by applying β and σ convergence tests for panel data, we find that convergence in bank competition …

This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … competition over the period, even as cost efficiency improves. In a departure from the empirical literature showing that … competition negatively Granger-causes cost efficiency for Western banks, we find no significant relation between competition and …

Banking competition is expected to provide welfare gains by reducing monopoly rents and cost inefficiencies, favoring a … banks, this paper aims to provide evidence on the effects of banking competition in the Czech Republic. First, we measure … the level and evolution of banking competition between 1994 and 2005. Competition is measured by the Lerner index on the …

This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … competition over the period, even as cost efficiency improves. In a departure from the empirical literature showing that … competition negatively granger-causes cost efficiency for Western banks, we find no significant relation between competition and …

There has been a notable debate in the banking literature on the impact of bank competition on financial stability …. While the dominant view sees a detrimental impact of competition on the stability of banks, this view has recently been … providing the first empirical investigation of the role of bank competition on the occurrence of bank failures. We analyze this …

This paper examines how bank competition influences the bank lending channel in the Euro area countries. Using a large … policy actions depending on the degree of bank competition. We find that the effect of monetary policy on bank lending is … dependent on bank competition: the transmission of monetary policy through the bank lending channel is less pronounced for banks …

Despite the extensive debate on the effects of bank competition, only a handful of single-country studies deal with the … impact of bank competition on the cost of credit. We contribute to the literature by investigating the impact of bank … competition on the cost of credit in a cross-country setting. Using a panel of firms from 20 European countries covering the …

This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … competition over the period, even as cost efficiency improves. In a departure from the empirical literature showing that … competition negatively granger-causes cost efficiency for Western banks, we find no significant relation between competition and …