-2013. The sample comprises 11,761 bank-year estimates of marginal cost and market power, which are then matched with data on the …

addition to general sluggishness, bank deposit rates' reactions are clearly asymmetric: flexible when market rates are …

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 … countries. We find that the impact of bank exits on the market power of other banks is non-linear, shaped like a U …

The trade-off between bank competition and financial stability has always been a widely and controversial issue, both … among policymakers and academics. This paper empirically re-investigates the relationship between competition and bank risk …-to-default, while we consider the SRISK as a proxy for bank systemic risk. Using the Lerner index as an inverse measure of competition …