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...

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...

Open banking is a policy initiative that encourages lending market competition by allowing borrowers to freely share data with any financial institutions. We investigate resource allocation efficiency under open banking. In our setting, banks compete in common-value auctions where they obtain...

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...

We use a monthly dataset for the Colombian banking system from 2002 to 2010 to test the role of interest rate ceilings on competition in different segments of the credit market. We use maximum likelihood estimations of double hurdle probabilistic models to estimate the probability of tacit...

Spanish banking historiography asserts that the largest banks performed in the twentieth century as though they constituted a monopoly. One of their main coordination schemes would have been a network of interlocking bank directors that would include most of the financial firms. Evidence...

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...

Gatekeepers are not exclusive to digital markets. Gatekeepers exist in many other industries such as banking, telecoms and energy. The new element introduced by digital gatekeepers is their scale and scope: Digital gatekeepers have a global scope, have millions of users and are present in...