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Cihák, Martin; Schaeck, Klaus - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

We use data for more than 2,600 European banks to test whether increased competition causes banks to hold higher capital ratios. Employing panel data techniques, and distinguishing between the competitive conduct of small and large banks, we show that banks tend to hold higher capital ratios...

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Competition Policy for Modern Banks

Ratnovski, Lev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

Traditional bank competition policy seeks to balance efficiency with incentives to take risk. The main tools are rules … argue that bank competition policy should be reoriented to deal with the too-big-to-fail (TBTF) problem. It should also …

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Competition and Entry in Banking: Implications for Stability and Capital Regulation

Boot, Arnoud W.A.; Marinc, Matej - Tinbergen Institute

competitive environment affect bank monitoring choices and the effectiveness of capital regulation? Our approach deviates from the …

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Competition and Entry in Banking: Implications for Stability and Capital Regulation

Boot, Arnoud W.A.; Marinc, Matej - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

competitive environment affect bank monitoring choices and the effectiveness of capital regulation? Our approach deviates from the …

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Competition in fragmented markets: New evidence from the German banking industry in the light of the subprime crisis

Moch, Nils - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 37 (2013) 8, pp. 2908-2919

Of all of the EU member states, Germany has the largest banking market. However, not all German banking institutions necessarily face fierce competition. Because the industry is highly fragmented, strict separation of the three existing banking pillars may impede competition, with negative...

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Future Risks and Fragilities for Financial Stability

Milne, Alistair; Beck, Thorsten; Pagliari, Stefano; … - SUERF - The European Money and Finance Forum

In March 2012 a conference, organised jointly by the ICFR and SUERF, on "Future Risks and Fragilities for Financial Stability", explored what the next pressure points for financial stability might be, how these may arise from the response to the last financial crisis, and how the industry and...

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Competition and financial stability in European cooperative banks

Fiordelisi, Franco; Mare, Davide Salvatore - In: Journal of International Money and Finance 45 (2014) C, pp. 1-16

fifth of the European Union (EU) bank deposits and loans. Despite their importance, little is known about the relationship … between bank stability and competition for these small credit institutions. Does competition affect the stability of … relationship between competition and bank soundness (both in the short and long run) among European cooperative banks between 1998 …

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Bank Competition Through The Credit Cycle: Implications For SME Financing

McCann, Fergal; McIndoe-Calder - Central Bank of Ireland - 2012

In this letter a series of stylized facts are presented on competition in Irish private sector lending markets across periods of both significant economic expansion and decline. Firstly, concentration of lending to the private sector is shown to have fallen during the boom period of 2004-2008,...

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Market Power and Collusion on Interconnection Phone Market in Tunisia: What Lessons from International Experiences

DEBBICHI, Sami; HICHRI, Walid - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2014

We try in this paper to characterize the state of mobile phone market in Tunisia. Our study is based on a survey of foreign experience (Europe) in detecting collusive behavior and a comparison of the critical threshold of collusion between operators in developing countries like Tunisia. The...

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¿Es competitivo el mercado eléctrico español? Indicadores de abuso de poder de mercado y aplicación al caso de España/Is the Spanish Electricity Wholesale Market Competitive? Indic...

ARNEDILLO BLANCO, OSCAR - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 29 (2011) Agosto, pp. 627-654

Desde principios de los años 90 se ha producido una ola de liberalizaciones de los mercados eléctricos bajo la premisa de que la presión competitiva llevaría a una reducción en el coste de suministro. No obstante, gran parte de los estudios académicos concluyen que estos mercados están...

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