This paper studies the links between competition in the lending market and spreads of bank loans in Brazil. Evidence …

We study specialized lending in a credit market competition model with private information. Two banks, equipped with …

competition, of which the most common are the concentration ratio and the Herfindahl-Hirschman index. It is important to emphasize … competition. Although market changes are reflected in a reduced number of banks while a change in the dispersion of market shares …

This paper documents a positive relation between bank competition and the penetration of bank accounts at the municipal … of an additional branch by a bank who is already present in the local market. Our results suggest that competition policy …

measuring the banking sector competition proceed from the market structure and concentration measures. In contrast, modern … approaches to measuring competition rely on non-structural models and analysis of the behaviour of market participants. The paper … analyzes the degree of concentration and competition in the banking sector of the Republic of Serbia. The traditional and most …

competition, of which the most common are the concentration ratio and the Herfindahl-Hirschman index. It is important to emphasize … competition. Although market changes are reflected in a reduced number of banks while a change in the dispersion of market shares …

This paper analyzes the degree of concentration and competition in the Serbian banking sector during the 2010 … suitable conditions for the development of healthy competition among them. However, the approximation of the indices to …

This paper investigates how competition affects the double-bottom-line performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs …). While classical economic theory highlights that competition enhances efficiency and benefits both customers and firms, we … period (2005–2014), we find that competition has an adverse effect on MFIs' economic sustainability and that competition …