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We analyze a large merger in the Dutch banking market during the financial crisis using disaggregated data. Based on a …
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The analysis highlights the aspects of diversified market structures and of local, low-distance banking as advantageous … for financial stability. Heterogeneity protects from uniform market behaviour. Local banking can better overcome the … regionally focussed credit institutions. So it seems that the process of re-intermediation and re-directing banking business back …
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We show that U.S. banks price deposits almost uniformly across their branches and that this pricing practice is crucial to explain the deposit rate dynamics following bank mergers. We find a strong and sharp post-merger convergence between the deposit rates of the acquired branches and the...
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This paper shows how price leadership bans imposed, as part of the European Commission's State aid control, on all main mortgage providers but the largest bank shifted the Dutch mortgage market from a competitive to a collusive price leadership equilibrium. In May 2009, mortgage rates in The...
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This paper studies the impact of entry of non-banks (termed Independent Service Operators, ISOs) into ATM markets. We compare two different regimes by which the ISO may generate income: i) The ISO receives interchange fees and ii) the ISO charges consumers directly. We find that due to the entry...
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Background: Competition in the banking industry has been an important topic in the scientific literature as researchers … tried to assess the level of competition in the banking sector. Objectives: This paper has an aim to investigate the market … structure and a long term equilibrium of the banking market in Bosnia and Herzegovina nationwide as well as on its …
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, as well as a series of industry-specific characteristics. It emerges that not only did regulatory reform in 1990 result … mechanism. Conversely, before completion of the regulatory reform, in 1989, entry was possible even for very small firms, and …
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We review how technological advances and changes in regulation may shape the (future) geographical scope of banking. We … altered this impact and analyse the current state of the European banking sector. We discuss both theoretical contributions … further dismantling the various residual but mutually reinforcing frictions in the retail banking markets in Europe. We …
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This paper examines the relationship between risk, concentration and the exercise of market power by banking … institutions. We use monthly balance-sheet and interest rate data for the Colombian banking system from 1997 to 2006. The evidence …
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