Patterns in cross-border banking have changed since the global financial crisis. This may affect domestic bank market … modes of cross-border banking impact bank concentration. I use a two- country general equilibrium model with heterogeneous … banking sector on bank market structures. The model suggests that both cross-border lending and bank FDI mitigate …

efficient structure (ES) hypothesis. In this framework, we test causality from cost efficiency to bank growth and then from bank … the period of 1999–2014. The efficiency scores have been estimated by employing Slack Based Measurements Data Envelopment … account for endogeneity in estimation models. The results show that cost efficiency enables the banks to grow and obtain …