’s performance and soft information factors in inter-bank competition. The authors’ empirical results suggest that utilizing soft … examines how relationship lending affects lending performance in inter-bank competition. The conclusion is that, even though … inter-bank competition has negative effects, a bank in a competitive local market can acquire an informational advantage to …

: Listing of Japan Post Bank and Reorganization of Regional Banks -- 4 Theory and Empirical Analysis for the Restructuring of … Japan’s fiscal health. It points out that, even though the Japan Post Bank has been partially privatized, the old mandatory … deposit system still virtually exists between the bank and the government. This makes the bank’s asset portfolio heavily …

Bank competition and financial stability is a recurrent research issue, and researchers have begun to shed light on the … between competition and systemic-risk for Japan's regional banks. We find that the bank mark-up is negatively associated with … competition effect on systemic-risk. Japan is an interesting case in this venue since its regional banking system has confronted …