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Banks in the European Union recently started publicly reporting data on profit, number of employees, turnover and tax on a country-by-country basis. I introduce the largest, hand-collected data set of its kind, which covers almost 50 banks for up to 5 years between 2013 and 2017. I identify the...
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Recently, massive bank exits have begun to be observed around the world. What is the effect of such bank behavior on the market power of the remaining banks and on competition between rivals? Do financial crises change this relationship? We test these questions on a sample of 226 foreign banks'...
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The prolonged crisis exposed the vulnerability of a monetary union without a banking union. The Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), which started operating in November 2014, is an essential step towards restoring banks to health and rebuilding trust in the banking system. The ECB is today...
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) leading to efficiency gains in the banking market. Our findings suggest that the more frequent bank failures occurring in a …
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The three main measures of competition (HHI, Lerner Index, and H-Statistic) are uncorrelated for U.S. banks. We investigate why this occurs, propose a frontier measure of competition, and apply it to five major bank service lines using data only available since 2008. Fee-based banking services...
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Using a translog cost function, we firstly estimate economies of scale and then calculate the bank-specific scale elasticities for Korean banks over the period 2007Q2 to 2011Q2. We find that all National banks operate with significant economies of scale, with bank-specific scale elasticities...
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competition is greater for healthy banks than for fragile ones. Our results suggest that efficiency is the conduit through which …
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Using a sample of US banks between 2001 and 2013, this paper investigates the impact of competition on bank efficiency … on efficiency, and the effect of the interaction between competition and securitization on efficiency. We confirm that … higher competition reduces efficiency. More importantly, our empirical findings suggest that banks securitizing their loans …
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specified period. We want to fill the gap in the banking literature testing the validity of the Competition-Efficiency … Hypothesis, analysing the impact of the banking competition measures on two alternative measures of efficiency, cost and profit … efficiency, in the European banking systems in a Granger-causality manner. The results confirm us that in the EU the convergence …
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bank profitability. The results show that cost efficiency, profit efficiency and liquidity risk are significantly related …
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