This empirical paper adds to competition and industrial organization literature by exploring the interplay between … markets to be ruled by monopolistic competition, although estimation by revenue-equation does not reject monopoly hypothesis … competitiveness of the given regional market, and the results from non-structural methods of estimation suggest that bank competition …

Many studies have attempted to investigate the determinants and implications of competition in the banking industry …. The literature on the measurement of competition can be divided between the structural and non-structural approaches. The … structural approach infers the degree of competition from the structure of the market. The non-structural approach, based on the …

This paper studies empirically the relationship between competition and risk taking in banking markets. We exploit an …. The cross-sectional and longitudinal variation in competition in local markets are used to identify the relationship … between competition and risk taking, which we measure by the non-performing loans and loss provision rates of the individual …

Many studies have attempted to investigate the determinants and implications of competition in the banking industry …. The literature on the measurement of competition can be divided between the structural and non-structural approaches. The … structural approach infers the degree of competition from the structure of the market. The non-structural approach, based on the …

In this work, we evaluate the competition in the Romanian banking system as regards the distortions in terms of market …) where we analyse the competition on the Romanian banking market, using two indicators: the M index and the degree of the … Romanian banking system during the period 2000 - 2010 and that, in the period under review, the competition has continuously …

competition magnifies the lack of market discipline and induces additional moral hazard for excessive risk taking. Counterfactuals …