investigate the intensity of key effects on bank competition as decomposed into specific bank activities. The sample comprises … literature of competition modeling has produced mixed results, the proposed methodology goes one step further in order to … the explanatory power of traditional collusion, relative market power and efficiency alongside other key controls on bank …

Despite the extensive debate on the effects of bank competition, only a handful of single-country studies deal with the … impact of bank competition on the cost of credit. We contribute to the literature by investigating the impact of bank … period 2001–2011, we consider a broad set of measures of bank competition, including two structural measures (Herfindahl …

We examine the impact of bank competition on firms' access to credit using a large panel of 900 banks matched to almost … hypothesis whereby low inter-bank competition worsens firms' credit conditions. Specifically, we find that higher bank market … corporate borrowers. Furthermore, the effect of bank competition is heterogeneous across firms and banks. On the one hand, high …

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 …