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 …

some studies limited, convergence of bank efficiency among countries but on average productivity improvement has been weak … from clear what the "fair value" of a bank should be. This problem may also in part explain the very sharp ups and downs of … bank stocks recently. Concerning theme 2, sources of productivity in financial services, several potentially important …

Policy makers in Europe have been concerned that lack of product market competition have led productivity to lag behind … the US. Theoretical models are ambiguous about the direction of the effect that product market competition should have on … productivity. On the one hand increasing competition lowers firm's profits and thus reduces incentives to exert effort (the …

The paper evaluates the political and economic incentives to conclude the EU-Mexico Free Trade Agreement (FTA). It … the EU is likely to gain much more than Mexico. … EU und Mexiko bewertet. Dafür werden die europäische und mexikanische Handelspolitik analysiert und der multilaterale …

period 1998-2005 and discusses the results from the perspective of corporate bank strategy. Methodologically the existing … concentration of the national financial sector have a considerable impact on a bank's financial performance. Both issues proved to …

This paper investigates the dynamics of the pass-through between market interest rates and bank interest rates in the … deposits and savings deposits. Bank soundness, credit risk and interest rate risk are found to exert a significant influence on … monetary policy was up (down). Overall, we find that competition among banks and competition from financial markets result in a …