We develop a model of spatial competition to explore how changes in the market structure affect the incentives of banks … reveal that the relaxation of competition distorts banks' incentives to invest in screening …

Using a translog cost function, we firstly estimate economies of scale and then calculate the bank-specific scale … of scale, with bank-specific scale elasticities ranging from 82% to 88%, while half of the Regional banks and Specialized … banks also exhibited significant scale economies, with bank-specific scale elasticities averaging around 92% and 83 …

, providing the ability to draw reliable conclusions. We find that MENA banks operate under monopolistic competition. Our findings …

Using a sample of US banks between 2001 and 2013, this paper investigates the impact of competition on bank efficiency …, the bank-specific factors that increase the likelihood of securitization, the previously untested impact of securitization … on efficiency, and the effect of the interaction between competition and securitization on efficiency. We confirm that …

We use a new regulatory dataset to measure the intensity competition in the UK deposit-taking sector. The novelty of … this study is two-fold. First, the dataset allows us to explore trends in competition intensity over an extended, 24-year …. Second, we take a portmanteau approach and estimate a number of different performance-based competition measures common in …

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 …

-country convergence of three used bank competition measures, with higher convergence levels of market power and of competitive behaviour …