derived from imperfect competition in markets for financial services is implied, which banks exercise vis-à-vis their loan and … deposit customers. In the past, bank regulation has often been blamed for undermining competition and the functioning of … industry, competition and regulation are deeply interrelated as most regulatory institutions, even if they do not explicitly …

This empirical paper adds to competition and industrial organization literature by exploring the interplay between … markets to be ruled by monopolistic competition, although estimation by revenue-equation does not reject monopoly hypothesis … competitiveness of the given regional market, and the results from non-structural methods of estimation suggest that bank competition …

-taking. As market power is the primary source of franchise value, reduced competition in banking markets has been seen as …

competition, of which the most common are the concentration ratio and the Herfindahl-Hirschman index. It is important to emphasize … competition. Although market changes are reflected in a reduced number of banks while a change in the dispersion of market shares …

measuring the banking sector competition proceed from the market structure and concentration measures. In contrast, modern … approaches to measuring competition rely on non-structural models and analysis of the behaviour of market participants. The paper … analyzes the degree of concentration and competition in the banking sector of the Republic of Serbia. The traditional and most …

A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization … role in the transmission from competition to soundness. We use a twopronged approach. First, we employ Granger causality … tests to establish the link between competition and measures of profit efficiency in banking, and find that competition …

This paper analyses the relation between competition and concentration in the banking sector. The empirical answer is … given by testing a monopolistic competition model of bank branching behaviour on individual bank data at county level … among incumbent banks on competition and discuss when, depending on the pre-merger structure of the market and geographic …