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Regulation and competition in German banking : an assessment
Fischer, Karl-Hermann; Pfeil, Christian M. - 2003
In Germany a public discussion on the power of banks has been going on for decades now with the term power having at least two meanings. On the one hand, it denotes the power of banks to control public corporations through direct shareholdings or the exercise of proxy votes this is the power of...
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How does competition affect efficiency and soundness in banking? New empirical evidence
Schaeck, Klaus; Čihák, Martin - 2008
A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization based approach to large data sets for European and U.S. banks, we offer new empirical evidence that efficiency plays a key role in the transmission from competition to soundness....
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Banking Market Structure, Institutions, and SMEs’ Access to Finance in Transition Economies : The Case of Ukraine
Ahunov, Muzaffar Olimjonovich - 2010
We investigate the impact of local banking market concentration on small and medium-sized enterprises' access to finance in Ukraine, as an under-researched case of a country where crime and corruption rates are high. We combine firm-level observations from the EBRD's BEEPS survey with unique,...
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Market concentration and uniform pricing : evidence from bank mergers
Granja, João; Paixão, Nuno - 2021 - Last updated: February 11, 2021
We show that U.S. banks price deposits almost uniformly across their branches and that this pricing practice is crucial …
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Compositional dynamics and the performance of the US banking industry
Stiroh, Kevin J. (contributor) - 2000 - December 13, 1999
performers, and new entrants - made substantial contributions to changes in profitability and capitalization of the U.S. banking …
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The Fat Years : The Structure and Profitability of the Us Banking Sector in the Pre-Crisis Period
Tregenna, Fiona - 2010
Bank profitability in the USA was extremely high in the pre-crisis period, yet this did not prevent the current crisis …' capital bases. This paper analyses the effects of structure on profitability from 1994 to 2005. Bank-level panel data are used … to test the effects of concentration, market power, bank size and operational efficiency on profitability. Efficiency is …
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Market power, efficiency and welfare performance of banks : evidence from the Ghanaian banking industry
Adeabah, David; Andoh, Charles - 2019
The study analyses the welfare performance of banks' lending services in the Ghanaian banking industry with emphasis on the role of market power and efficiency. We made use of pooled OLS regression with fixed effect model. For robustness, we adopted Prais-Winsten (1954) regression and two-stage...
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Production structure, output and profits - a note
Dögüs, Ilhan - 2021
This paper argues that the case of product differentiation of concentrated markets (i.e., innovation competition) is one where production per unit of profit of non-financial corporations is lower than in competitive mass production and profit share is not an increasing function of capacity...
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Bank competition and firm growth in the enlarged European Union
Pellényi, Gábor; Borkó, Tamás - 2009
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Competitiveness in the European consolidated banking sector after the 2008 financial crisis
Klutse, Senanu Kwasi - In: Národohospodářský obzor : časopis věnovaný … 20 (2020) 4, pp. 431-444
measures of profitability in the sector. They were indicating that the accumulation of assets eats into the incomes of banks in …
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