regulation of the banking sector, especially in terms of the structure of the sector, pricing behaviour and use of profits …

In this paper we study how competition and financial soundness affect financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …). We use detailed individual-level survey data, combined with key country-level indicators of bank competition and …, and bank loans). We find that more competition tends to increase the probability of access to these financial products. On …

bank competition measures to study the role of banking system structure as a determinant of cross-country variability in … country and time fixed effects. We find that greater banking industry concentration is associated with more access to deposit … are robust to changes in sample, data, and estimation strategy and suggest that the degree of competition is an important …

economic growth are ambiguous in theory. Moreover, measuring competition in the financial sector can be complex. In this paper … Claessens and Laeven first estimate for 16 countries a measure of banking system competition based on industrial organization … theory. They then relate this competition measure to growth of industries and find that greater competition in countries …

afterward in Russia and other former Soviet Union countries. Before the crisis a banking failure arose owing to the coexistence … conditions for banking development. …

Competition among banks promotes growth and stability for an economy with production externality. Following Arrow and … Debreu (1954), I formulate a standard growth model with externality — a two-period version of Romer (1986) — as a game among …

This study looks at the determinants of profitability in the GCC banking system over the period 1999 to 2012. Variables … regressions. While spread of banking activity has no impact on bank profitability, stock market capitalization as ratio of GDP has …

The positive relation between financial development and economic growth seems to have weakened in recent years and when … finance-growth nexus for a comprehensive sample of more than 100 countries during 1996-2005. We find an independent and … economically significant effect of higher mean cost efficiency for economic growth, suggesting that the interaction between better …