Bank profitability in the USA was extremely high in the pre-crisis period, yet this did not prevent the current crisis …. It has become clear that these profits were on shaky grounds and also that bank profits were not used to buttress banks …' capital bases. This paper analyses the effects of structure on profitability from 1994 to 2005. Bank-level panel data are used …

regulation and Europeanisation of supervision, however, -so far neglecting differences in risk profiles and bank sizes …-Anwendungen vorhandene Bank- und Finanzdienstleistungen ergänzen, aber nicht ersetzen werden. Wir warnen jedoch vor bestehenden …

The aim of the study is to estimate the level of competition and concentration in the Polish banking sector in 1997 …) have been used for the evaluation of competition. Concentration in the Polish banking industry was analysed by using … concentration indices (k bank concentration ratios (CR5) and the Herfindahl-Hirschman indices (HHI)).Empirical analysis shows that …

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 …

This study investigates if the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) distorted price competition in U.S. banking …

Both the country experiences and the academic debate suggest that concentration and competition have ambiguous effects … on financial stability and as such, there is no clear conclusion on the validity of either the competition-stability or … the competition-fragility hypotheses. However, it would not be entirely correct to either conclude that these two …

This study investigates if the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) distorted price competition in U.S. banking …

This paper examines the link between bank competition measures and risk indicators using quarterly interbank exposures … competition and individual bank solvency risk. In this paper, we take one step forward in analyzing the relationship between … competition and systemic risk. We use counterfactual bank-level contagion risk indicators as a proxy of systemic risk to assess …

issues. Our findings indicate that MENA banks are still operating under monopolistic competition conditions. With regards to … political instability, bank revenues is negatively affected by such matter and policies that favour deregulation and a more …

competition. Here, we employ a novel approach to account for IRS that are both unexpected and effective for a bank’s business … theory that monopolistic firms undersupply the market when utilizing their high pricing power in the bank competition …–liquidity creation nexus. While positive IRS per se lead to an increase in bank liquidity creation, we find that a high bank …