This study considers the efficiency of banking in Australia during the post-deregulation period 1988-2001. Since 1986 … banks have used size as a barrier to entry to the new entrants in the post-deregulation period. Furthermore, bank efficiency … seems to have increased post-deregulation and the competition resulting from diversity in bank types was important to prompt …

disclose to the public? By integrating the gravity model of investment with the state-specific process of bank deregulation … deregulation-induced competition. We find that an intensification of competition reduced abnormal accruals of loan loss provisions …

Using comprehensive loan-level data in China, we investigate how the deregulation on bank entry barriers alters local … deregulation are adversely mitigated by entrant banks' preferences for lending to SOEs over more productive private firms. This …

Using comprehensive loan-level data in China, we investigate how the deregulation on bank entry barriers alters local … deregulation are adversely mitigated by entrant banks’ preferences for lending to SOEs over more productive private firms. This …

disclose to the public? By integrating the gravity model of investment with the state-specific process of bank deregulation … deregulation-induced competition. We find that an intensification of competition reduced abnormal accruals of loan loss provisions …