of capital markets and banking systems as well as the distribution of access to external finance across firms … capture, favor connected interests, and undermine finance access and entry. Thus the degree of access to political rights by …

operations. Borrowers and other bank customers should need this knowledge of banking in order to facilitate their borrowing …/lending process and the pricing of the products that they use. Banking products include traditional loans and deposits, as well as … finance are also part of banking and need to be understood in its entirety for efficient bank work flow."--Provided by …

This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This … competition can consider the entire banking market only. A caveat of the Boone-indicator may be that it assumes that banks …