to test the effects of concentration, market power, bank size and operational efficiency on profitability. Efficiency is …Bank profitability in the USA was extremely high in the pre-crisis period, yet this did not prevent the current crisis …' capital bases. This paper analyses the effects of structure on profitability from 1994 to 2005. Bank-level panel data are used …

-related efficiency gains receded, and as bank size continued to expand through market overlap mergers, market power gains emerged. When … such mergers trace to efficiency improvements or market power vis-à-vis customers and regulators administering the … government safety net. The findings indicate that as statutory restrictions on bank expansion faded over time, size …

As one of the most important performance indicators, the profitability in the banking industry has been attracted great … attention from government, financial regulatory authorities, bank practitioners as well as academic researchers. Because of the … increasing during recent decades. The current study comprehensively reviews relevant literature investigating the profitability …

during the period 2002-2010. The results show an inverse U-shaped association between market power and bank soundness and … activities, official intervention to bank management and book transparency. However, in markets with higher share of foreign … stability channel of bank competition …

, increased bank competition has the potential to lower credit risk via efficiency gains (lower credit cost, operational gains …This paper investigates the impact of bank competition in Sub-Saharan Africa on bank non-performing loans, a measure of … credit risk. Using bank-level data for a sample of 221 banks from 33 countries over the period 2000-15, we find a non …

This study endeavours at measuring bank competition in Indian loan market using a new competitiveness index, the … to other conventional measures. Second, applying this unbiased competition indicator to Indian bank loan markets shows …

each bank ownership type (state-owned commercial banks, joint-stock commercial banks and city commercial banks) leads to … contributes to the empirical literature by using a more accurate competition indicator (efficiency-adjusted Lerner index) and a …

banking competition is fiercer. We explain this result with the fact that bank market power, i.e., low competition, would …