take excessive risks: As competition intensifies and margins decline, banks face more-binding threats of failure, to which …, destabilizing effect of lower margins outweighs the disciplining effect of competition; moreover, a substantial rise in competition … reduces banks’ incentive to build precautionary capital buffers. A key implication is that the effects of competition on risk …

This paper shows that bank competition has an intrinsically ambiguous effect on capital accumulation and economic … evidence gathered from recent empirical studies of how bank competition affects the real economy. Our results were obtained by … prospective entrepreneur is of low credit quality and where screening would therefore be especially beneficial, less competition …