deposits and a corresponding decrease in banks’ deposit growth. Our results are strongest among small and single state …

Does an increase in competition increase or decrease bank stability? I exploit how the state-specific process of … significantly increases bank stability. This result is robust to the inclusion of additional fixed effects and other influences … loans and increases bank profitability. These findings suggest that competition increases stability as it improves bank …

This study analyses the implication of regulation and competition for stability in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) banking … affecting stability in SSA banking sectors, using transformed quarterly data for the period 2006 to 2015 in order to recover … other regulatory variables employed, have the largest impact on the stability of the commercial banking sectors of SSA …