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Hedging with Credit Derivatives and its Strategic Role in Banking Competition

Pausch, Thilo; Schweimayer, Gerhard - 2004

The tremendous growth of markets for credit derivatives since the mid 1990's has raised questions regarding the role of these instruments in the banking in- dustry which is heavily exposed to credit risk. However, while recent literature mainly focused on pricing and optimal decisions regarding...

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Why Nigerian Banks Appear to Have Lost Their Way

Iyasele, Abel Alemeke - 2012

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Bank Organization, Market Structure and Risk-Taking : Evidence from U.S. Commercial Banks

Goetz, Martin Richard - 2012

This paper studies how a bank's diversification affects its own risk taking behavior and the risk taking of competing, nondiversified banks. In particular, I test whether greater geographic diversification of banks has effects on the risk taking behavior of nondiversified competitors beyond...

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Do Brazilian Banks Compete?

Belaisch, Agnes - 2021

More developed financial systems are associated with higher investment and better economic performance. This paper discusses possible factors that may inhibit a deepening of bank intermediation and more efficient banking in Brazil, two aspects that are found to be significantly different than in...

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Determinants of Financial Market Structure and Competitiveness : Evidence From Nigerian Banking Industry

Saibu, Olufemi - 2020

The paper estimated the degree of competitiveness and the main driving forces of the inherent market structure of the Nigerian banking industry. This is with a view to determining the structural implications of recent financial reforms on the banking sector in Nigeria. A unique contribution of...

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An analysis of concentration and competition in the banking sector of the Republic of Serbia

Radojičić, Jelena; Jemović, Mirjana; Dragijević, Dejan - In: Ekonomske teme 59 (2021) 4, pp. 427-444

The degree of the banking sector concentration is a structural variable and refers to the number of banks in the system and the degree of their market power. The importance of measuring concentration in the banking sector stems from the causal relationship between the market structure and the...

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Merger Deregulation, Wages, and Inequality : Evidence from the U.S. Banking Industry

Aneja, Abhay; Krishnamurthy, Prasad - 2022

We study the effect of bank merger deregulation on market structure and wages in the banking industry. We show that state deregulation of bank mergers and acquisitions increased the market share of large, multi-state banks and lowered wages for bank workers by up to 8 percentage points, with...

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Regulation and competition in German banking : an assessment

Fischer, Karl-Hermann; Pfeil, Christian M. - 2003

deposit customers. In the past, bank regulation has often been blamed for undermining competition and the functioning of … tries to shed some light on the historical development and current state of bank regulation in Germany. In so doing, it … tries to embed the analysis of bank regulation in a more general industrial organization framework. For every regulated …

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How does competition affect efficiency and soundness in banking? New empirical evidence

Schaeck, Klaus; Čihák, Martin - 2008

A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization based approach to large data sets for European and U.S. banks, we offer new empirical evidence that efficiency plays a key role in the transmission from competition to soundness....

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Are more competitive banking systems more stable?

Schaeck, Klaus; Čihák, Martin; Wolfe, Simon - 2006

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