Motivated by public policy debates about bank consolidation and conflicting theoretical predictions about the … relationship between the market structure of the banking industry and bank fragility, this paper studies the impact of bank … concentration, bank regulations, and national institutions on the likelihood of suffering a systemic banking crisis. Using data on …

This paper examines bank concentration, competition, and financial stability nexus across five emerging countries … relationships between bank concentration, competition, and stability. A two-step system Generalised Methods of Moments (GMM) is … concentration and low competition lead to more financial stability and less probability of bank default risk. In addition, a non …