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 …

on the structure of competition in the credit card industry. Potential reasons for the lack of competitions are denoted … cost of fund. This result indicates that Turkish credit card market is characterized with lack of strong competition and …

competition in the credit card market. However, we find that merchants are unlikely to be able to take full advantage of the …