Despite progress in the past decade, financial markets in Colombia remain relatively small and shallow. In particular … contestability support the hypothesis that contestability in Colombia is subpar. Finally, the paper also explores some of the … Working Paper relates to the 2014 OECD Economic Survey of Colombia. (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-colombia.htm) …

banks. We examine the pass-through mechanism using a unique data set of Czech loan and deposit products and focus on bank …

panel data of 24 banks for years 2009 through 2017. The results reveal that during our study period, there was a welfare … market power effect is dominant in both domestic and large banks. Overall, the results indicate that market power and bank …

bank/firm data, we find that public guarantees reduce allocative efficiency. With guarantees in place, poorly performing …

and Fortis Bank NL in the Dutch retail banking market. The financial crisis delayed the completion of the merger giving …