bank participation, suggesting that domestic banks are less cautious in their risk management …

model a lending relationship between a small firm and a monopolistic bank who decides the level of the interest rate. The … bankruptcy cannot be avoided under a severe legal environment. However, as the bank internalizes the rules of default, debt …

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 …

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 …

This work examines the impact of bank efficiency on the bank lending channel in China. Using a sample of 175 Chinese … bank's efficiency. While bank efficiency does not exert an impact on the effectiveness of monetary policy transmission … expansion of shadow banking activities has been associated with a positive impact of bank efficiency on monetary policy …