The paper investigates the link between bank concentration and a country's buyout market. We perform a macro level … for the size of the buyout market. The elasticity ranges from 1 up to 3 percent depending on which bank concentration … measure is employed and what segment of buyout market we look at. We also find that bank concentration is irrelevant for the …

2010 to the last quarter of 2019. In order to investigate this relationship, determinants of bank profitability are split … Montenegro does not give enough argument to support such explanation, and bank profitability can be explained by bank efficiency …

, to capture market power, and the data enveloped analysis technique to measure bank performance, our result shows … significant differences in Lerner scores (which represent bank market power) of the two groups of banks. Differences in the Lerner … scores provide evidence of a group of strong banks that is isolated from other banks. This implies that this strong bank …

market power effect is dominant in both domestic and large banks. Overall, the results indicate that market power and bank …