The question of whether more competition among banks increases relationship banking, which is predicted to improve … credit availability for informationally opaque firms in theory, is a controversial issue in the banking literature. By using … the provision of relationship banking. This paper raises the question whether fierce interbank competition is always …

the banking sector negatively affects start-up and exit rates in industries with a greater dependence on external …

banking industry, where deregulation in the early 1990s lead to extensive branch network expansion. To understand the …

An existing literature examines the degree to which modern commercial banking constitutes a competitive industry and … examine competitiveness over the period since the passage of the Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act … passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 …

impairment. Consistent with stated findings, increase in intensity of competition within banking sectors is accompanied by … sectoral allocations on banks is detrimental to stability of banking sectors. Study findings provide empirical validation for … hitherto untested intermediation theory of commercial banking, and indicate that optimality of liquidity provision by Central …

Continued consolidation of the U.S. banking industry and a general increase in the size of banks has prompted some …

We use panel data from the EU-25 to estimate the effect of changes in the degree of banking market concentration on the … that increases in the degree of banking market concentration …