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In Germany a public discussion on the power of banks has been going on for decades now with the term power having at least two meanings. On the one hand, it denotes the power of banks to control public corporations through direct shareholdings or the exercise of proxy votes this is the power of...
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We investigate the impact of local banking market concentration on small and medium-sized enterprises' access to finance in Ukraine, as an under-researched case of a country where crime and corruption rates are high. We combine firm-level observations from the EBRD's BEEPS survey with unique,...
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We show that U.S. banks price deposits almost uniformly across their branches and that this pricing practice is crucial …
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This paper analyzes efficiency and profitability in the Swiss banking sector over the period 1997-2019. We find strong … evidence for scale economies: for most banks in the sample, efficiency and profitability increase with bank size. Using an … profitability is likely causal. Scale economies have been more pronounced since 2010 than in the years prior to the global financial …
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efficiency and profitability of banks. This study aims to examine the impact of the introduction of two major regulatory changes … performance, that is, profitability and efficiency. Considering bank size, the results show a diverse impact of regulation on bank … performance. Regarding large- and medium-sized banks, regulation positively affects both efficiency and profitability, whereas …
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Using the stochastic frontier approach and a panel dataset of retail banks, this paper assesses the cost efficiency of the banking sector in Hong Kong. The average cost inefficiency during the period 1992-2005 is found to be about 15% to 29% of observed total costs, which is largely in line with...
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profitability of a banking market. It found that in Hong Kong's case, market structure, such as market concentration and market … optimise their input mix for producing outputs, is a major determinant of banks' profitability. Since larger banks are found to …-throat price wars …
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The analysis highlights the aspects of diversified market structures and of local, low-distance banking as advantageous for financial stability. Heterogeneity protects from uniform market behaviour. Local banking can better overcome the problem of asymmetric information, particular in SME...
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performers, and new entrants - made substantial contributions to changes in profitability and capitalization of the U.S. banking …
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Bank profitability in the USA was extremely high in the pre-crisis period, yet this did not prevent the current crisis …' capital bases. This paper analyses the effects of structure on profitability from 1994 to 2005. Bank-level panel data are used … to test the effects of concentration, market power, bank size and operational efficiency on profitability. Efficiency is …
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