Over the last twenty years, Croatian banking market has been extremely dynamic in terms of market concentration. The number of banks was cut in half, and more often than ever, the banks are merging and acquiring each other. In this thesis there are nine different indices of concentration. Today,...

In a banking environment such as Romania's, constantly changing and subject to the pressure of a fierce competition, all the attention of the banks management teams is oriented towards the costs and their possible reduction in regard to maximizing the profit. In our opinion the main challenge...

Recession and stagnation in the bank sector of Ukraine along with the growing world macroeconomic instability were found to have intensified the problem of the national banks competitiveness increase in both internal and external financial markets. To form an effective competitive strategy a...

An examination of the relationship between bank profitability and concentration using recent data from a sample of institutions drawn from non-metropolitan statistical area counties in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

An examination of whether deregulation of the financial services industry has led to a disproportionate number of office closings in poor and minority neighborhoods.