Using aggregate balance sheet data from banks across the EU-25 over the period from 1997 to 2005 this paper provides empirical evidence that national banking market concentration has a negative impact on European banks’ financial soundness as measured by the Z-score technique while controlling...

We analyze whether and how bank deregulation relates to the M&A centric consolidation of U.S. banking industry. Using difference-in-difference approach on M&A activity of banks over a time span of 1990-2009, we find a positive and statistically significant effect of deregulation on bank...

This paper aims to find out how intense is the competition in Polish commercial banks loan market. Using Panzar–Rosse H-statistics and applying several estimation techniques (GLS, one-step GMM and two-step GMM) we find that this intensity is sensitive to the estimator applied. Upon analysis of...

This paper analyzes the implications of the gradual rise in bank concentration since the 1990s for the transmission of monetary policy. I use branch-level data on deposit and loan rates to evaluate the monetary policy pass-through conditional on the level of local bank concentration and bank...

The European Regulation on short selling (SSR) has been applied to restrict hedge funds from short selling the stock of Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) as part of a distressed securities strategy. In the MPS case, a distressed securities strategy was carried out based on short selling, despite...

We document empirical support for a key micro-level channel --- innovation by young, private firms --- through which financial sector deregulation affects economic growth. We find that intrastate banking deregulation, which increased the local market power of banks, decreased the level and risk...

FinTech holds great potential for both financial inclusion and economic development in a wider sense. Digital financial solutions have been expanding access and reach to consumers, especially the unbanked and under-banked. They have been significantly lowering the costs of providing financial...

We analyze the impact of decreases in available lending resources on quantitative and qualitative dimensions of firms' patenting activities. We thereby make use of the European Banking Authority?s capital exercise to carve out the causal effect of bank lending on firm innovation. In order to do...