investigate the intensity of key effects on bank competition as decomposed into specific bank activities. The sample comprises … 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 … power is associated with lower short and long-term bank credit, higher reliance on trade credit and higher funding costs for …

This paper investigates the impact of corporate governance on European bank performance during the period 2002 … more specifically the board size and composition, the gender diversity and the CEO duality on the European bank performance … impact on bank performance. Large board of directors with more female members led to better bank performance, whereas, the …

This paper investigates the impact of gender diversity on bank efficiency using a unique hand-collected dataset …

European banks over the period 1990-2006. We find that the intensity of bank M&A activity relates in a positive and … the bank bailout support with the joint effect of M&A activity and “too big to fail” factor. While we obtain widely robust …