This paper assesses the degree of bank competition and discusses efficiency with regard to banks' financial …

The paper assesses the degree of banking competition and efficiency in Italy?over time as well as compared to that in … other countries, such as France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper finds competition in …. The degree of competition falls within the range of estimates for a set of comparator countries. Greater contestability …

This paper investigates the empirical relationship between competition in the financial sector and the creation of … firms in the non-financial sector. It finds that bank competition has an overall positive effect on firm creation. However …, consistent with theories of banking arguing that competition may reduce the availability of credit to informationally opaque …

As in other sectors, competition in finance matters for allocative, productive and dynamic efficiency. Theory suggests …, however, that unfettered competition is not first best given the special features of finance. I review these analytics and … describe how to assess the degree of competition in markets for financial services. Existing research shows that the degree of …

Antitrust advocates believe that horizontal consolidation in hospital markets can reduce competition and increase …, and managed care penetration. The results show: a shift away from non-price competition toward price competition in health …

&D personnel and industry concentration exists. If market concentration is a measure of competition than we can conclude that … intangible assets and competition was measured by Lerner index. Finally, our analysis concluded that although foreign firms are …