competition are quite limited. We propose and implement a frontierbased method to assess relative competition in bank …, it is important to maintain competition among payment service providers but data available to gauge the degree of …

result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects … employment into unemployment; ii) job-search effectiveness measured by the probability of moving from unemployment into … employment within one year. The quarterly Labour Force Survey data (ISTAT) from 1993 to 1997 was used. The transition …

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 …

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 …

We assess the influence of competition and capital regulation on the stability of the banking system. We particularly … competitive environment affect bank monitoring choices and the effectiveness of capital regulation? Our approach deviates from the … show that competition improves the monitoring incentives of better quality banks and deteriorates the incentives of lower …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In diesem Papier geben wir einen Überblick über den Wettbewerb und die Effizienz im deutschen Bankensektor. Wir nehmen … scheinen Wettbewerb und Effizienz positiv miteinander verbunden. Des weiteren bestanden deutliche Unterschiede zwischen großen … möglichen Folgen für Wettbewerb und Effizienz. …