significant central bank reserves. Against this background, Uruguay now faces issues beyond those addressed to stabilize the … central bank reserves. …

significant bank consolidation has been taking place in these countries, reflected in a sharp decline in the number of banks, this …

Community (EAC) countries2. The results show that the degree of competition is low due to a combination of structural and socio …

firms in the non-financial sector. It finds that bank competition has an overall positive effect on firm creation. However … firms, it also finds that asymmetric information limits the overall positive effect of bank competition on firm creation …. Indeed, bank competition is less favorable to the emergence of new firms in industrial sectors where informational …

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

'Afrique Centrale (CEMAC) and the level of bank competition at the regional level. Using a mix of quantitative and qualitative … excess liquidity in the region. Other data also indicate that bank competition within the CEMAC as a region is limited …

essential ingredients of models of bank competition. …This study reinvestigates the theoretical relationship between competition in banking and banks' exposure to risk of … failure. There is a large existing literature that concludes that when banks are confronted with increased competition, they …

This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … efficiency. This suggests that measures to increase bank competition in the Chinese context are not detrimental to efficiency. … panel estimator framework to evaluate the sign and direction of causality between them. We observe no increase in bank …

This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … efficiency. This suggests that measures to increase bank competition in the Chinese context are not detrimental to efficiency. … panel estimator framework to evaluate the sign and direction of causality between them. We observe no increase in bank …