shields the private commercial bank from aggressive competition by these banks. … such cooperative practices. There are two adjacent markets with one savings or cooperative bank being focused on each one … and one private commercial bank serving both. We find that abolishing regional demarcation indeed increases total loan …

shields the private commercial bank from aggressive competition by these banks. … such cooperative practices. There are two adjacent markets with one savings or cooperative bank being focused on each one … and one private commercial bank serving both. We find that abolishing regional demarcation indeed increases total loan …

In diesem Papier geben wir einen Überblick über den Wettbewerb und die Effizienz im deutschen Bankensektor. Wir nehmen … dabei die Entwicklung in den letzten 15 Jahren in den Blick. Frühere Studien für Deutschland weisen darauf hin, dass das … scheinen Wettbewerb und Effizienz positiv miteinander verbunden. Des weiteren bestanden deutliche Unterschiede zwischen großen …

estimate bank-specific Lerner indices as measures of competition and test if cost and profit efficiency are negatively related … cost savings. We suggest a united approach to measure competition and efficiency simultaneously to test this hypothesis. We …

multiple technology regimes and group membership probabilities. The latter are conditioned on six bank traits of German banks … specific cost parameters to measure competition with Lerner indices. Large, national universal banks and the smallest, most … specialized banks exhibit the lowest level of competition. In turn, medium sized universal banks are both efficient and exhibit …

This paper analyses the institutional framework for pharmacies in Germany and competition in that sector, which is … characterized by significant competition deficits. Based on our diagnosis and findings the advantages and disadvantages of two …

approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … ignores differences in bank product quality and design, as well as the attractiveness of innovations. We measure competition …This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This …

competition, of which the most common are the concentration ratio and the Herfindahl-Hirschman index. It is important to emphasize … that when calculating the value of these indices, the National Bank of Serbia most often uses the absolute value of assets … competition. Although market changes are reflected in a reduced number of banks while a change in the dispersion of market shares …

nicht verbessert. Deshalb mahnen (manche) Ökonomen "mehr Wettbewerb" unter den Prognoseinstituten an – und hoffen, dass die … Analyse nicht zu klaren Indizien, dass "mehr Wettbewerb" die Prognosegüte erhöht. Dieses noch vage Ergebnis wird von einer …) economists demand "more competition" among forecasting institutions, hoping that allocative efficiency of market solutions holds …