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Using Concentration Ratio and Herfindahl-Hirschman Index techniques, the paper investigates the concentration levels of the banking industry in Ghana and forecasts the future concentration levels of the industry should consolidations triggered by the new bank recapitalization policy occur in the...
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The empirical results of this paper indicate that the degree of competition in the banking system is determined by … result says that there is a positive relationship between the index of competition and concentration there by verifies our … theoretical perception. On another note, economic growth is negatively correlated with the competition, which unfortunately …
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period 2008–2013. We employed the Panzar-Rosse model of firm competition, and found that the degree of competition among …
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The paper tests the effect of competition on bank risk-taking for a sample of up to 800 banks worldwide over the period … 1995-2010. Following the theoretical literature on bank competition and risk more closely than previous empirical research …, we measure competition at the bank level and separate the effects of competition in deposit and loan markets. We also …
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literature of competition modeling has produced mixed results, the proposed methodology goes one step further in order to … investigate the intensity of key effects on bank competition as decomposed into specific bank activities. The sample comprises …
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-2006. The results show that banks in China operate under a system of monopolistic competition in general. The disaggregated … analyses suggest that the intensity of competition in the core market for bank lending increased after China's World Trade … Organisation accession and alongside interest rate liberalisation. However, it seems that competition has become less intense in …
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This paper empirically assesses the effects of competition in the financial sector on credit procyclicality by … potential GDP leads to greater credit fluctuation in economies where:(i) competition among banks and,(ii) competition from non … theory, if lower competition strengthens the cyclical behavior of financial intermediaries, it follows that these "endogenous …
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(IBBEA) to examine how increases in competition affect incumbents' voluntary disclosure choices. States implemented the IBBEA … over several years and to varying degrees, allowing us to identify the effect of increased competition on the voluntary … disclosure decisions of both public and private banks. We find that increases in competition are associated with an increase in …
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of bilateral bank competition, construct a novel competition measure at the locality level, and assess how well it … competitor has fewer hierarchical layers. Intense bilateral bank competition increases local credit constraints, especially for … small firms, as competition may impede the formation of lending relationships …
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of bilateral bank competition, construct a novel competition measure at the locality level, and assess how well it … competitor has fewer hierarchical layers. Intense bilateral bank competition increases local credit constraints, especially for … small firms, as competition may impede the formation of lending relationships …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012851013