regulatory and policy changes needed to boost Canada’s overall and financial services productivity. We look at specific …

highly bank-dominated local financial systems, financial infrastructures anemic in proper legal and regulatory frameworks …

banking services and financial instruments. The regulatory indicators are assembled from surveys conducted by the World Bank …

This paper investigates the effect of bank competition and financial stability on economic growth by examining panel …-data from 38 European countries over 2001 to 2017. Bank competition is measured with the Boone indicator, and bank stability … effect of economic growth, and reverse causality in its estimation. Results show that bank stability significantly …

This paper builds a dataset on bank ownership that covers more than 6,500 banks in 181 countries (59 low … reversed these trends. At the country level, the relationship between bank ownership and each of GDP growth and financial depth …. Bank-level regressions show that state-owned banks are less profitable and have a higher share of non-performing loans than …

removing barriers to bank entry on bank competition and economic growth. As governments were not concerned about systemic … stability in this period, we are able to isolate the effects of bank competition from those of state implicit guarantees. We … find that the introduction of free banking laws stimulated the creation of new banks and led to more bank failures. Our …