We provide empirical investigations into the nexus between bank market power economic growth using nationalized bank data from 44 African countries from 2002 to 2015. The paper also explores how institutional quality factors influence the mechanisms through which banks with market power...

There has been an extensive debate on measuring the sensitivity of returns of stocks. Particularly some Internal and External conditions are involved in measuring the sensitivity of returns of stocks like; industrial Production, money Supply ,Foreign exchange Rate, Interest rate, gold prices, GDP...

This paper applies Markov chain to analyse the extent and mobility of profit persistent, dynamic auto regressive model is used to assess the speed of convergence and the quantile regression technique is employed to examine the determinants of profit persistent of 330 banks across 29 African...

This paper investigated the changes in competitive behaviour of banks in sub-Saharan Africa, following the 2007/2008 global financial crisis. Using 481 bank-year observations from an unbalanced panel of 83 banks from six countries over the period 2008–2013. We employed the Panzar-Rosse model...

This study shows that the presence of imperfect competition in the banking system propagates external shocks and amplifies the business cycle. Strategic limit pricing, aimed at protecting retail niches from potential competitors, generates countercyclical bank markups. Markup increments during...

An existing literature examines the degree to which modern commercial banking constitutes a competitive industry and the effects of various policies on the degree of competition in that market. This paper applies time series analysis to examine competitiveness over the period since the passage...

The constitutional conception of market integration within the European Union entails creating a level playing field for competition in the consolidated banking sector. The financial crisis of 2008 brought with it the need to proceed with care as it rolled back the gains of improving competitive...

The primary objective of this research is to examine the share price trend of UK Banking Companies who were involved in M&A activity in the post-acquisition period and to investigate to what level large banking corporations remained successful in improving their open market share price by...