We investigate the trade-off between financial stability and competition policy by focusing on the merger of ABN AMRO … and Fortis Bank NL in the Dutch retail banking market. The financial crisis delayed the completion of the merger giving … products using a random-coefficients logit model. On the supply side we assume Bertrand Nash competition in a multiproduct …

A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization … bank soundness. We find evidence that competition robustly increases bank soundness, via the efficiency channel … role in the transmission from competition to soundness. We use a twopronged approach. First, we employ Granger causality …

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 …

last global financial crisis and during the crisis, with particular emphasis on the change in concentration and competition …, in an attempt to determine the relationship between competition, concentration, and risk-taking by banks. This paper also … financial stability. The results for competition are unambiguous, as competition had a positive impact on financial stability …

loan and deposit market. Analyzing likely impact channels, different determinants of bank distress as well as effects from …

last global financial crisis and during the crisis, with particular emphasis on the change in concentration and competition …, in an attempt to determine the relationship between competition, concentration, and risk-taking by banks. This paper also … financial stability. The results for competition are unambiguous, as competition had a positive impact on financial stability …