This paper investigates the relationship between credit market competition and the availability of bank credit for …. Therefore market power in credit markets and collateral appear as substitutes to increase the availability of bank finance under …

The aim of this paper is to assess the level of competition prevailing in the Spanish banking system. The current … banks. In both settings, a noteworthy increase in the degree of competition is identified at the turn of the eighties, when … hypothesis which states that concentration impairs competition …

banking. This setting is of particular interest in Australia where members of the banking industry are leading the development … of CSR. But, given the nature of the banking category, it could be assumed that consumer sensitivity and reactivity would … the comparative sensitivity of consumers to different CSR activities in the Australian banking industry. We report …

short-term interest rate set by the central bank. His framework acknowledges the critical role of the central bank in … determining short-term interest rates, which moves mainstream macroeconomics closer to Post Keynesian monetary theory. The current … sector in terms of an exogenously determined interest rate set by the central bank, the model unpacks financial markets by …

-high inflation rate to rise further. However, in the final stretch of the year the Turkish central bank shifted towards more orthodox … monetary policy, helping to restore – at least in part – investor confidence. The banking sector has remained healthy, although …

Since bank credit lines are a major source of corporate funding, we examine the determinants of credit line usage with …. Lender characteristics, such as the number and length of a firm’s banking relationships, are found to affect a firm’s usage …