Carlson et al. (2022) examine the causal impact of banking competition by investigating a unique circumstance in the …

This paper examines the relationship between political competition and financial development across a global sample of … of Acemoglu and Robinson (2006) and Besley et al. (2010), we explore whether political competition impacts financial … efficiency of the financial sector, we find a Ushaped relationship between political competition and financial development in the …

How does banking competition affect credit provision and growth? How does it affect financial stability? In order to … identify the causal effects of banking competition, we exploit a discontinuity in bank capital requirements during the 19th … competition can cause both, growth and financial instability …