environment in Russia supports competition and to draw attention to the areas where further reform efforts would pay dividends … the scope for competition. However, ongoing work needs to focus on separating competitive and monopoly market segments and … regulators. Introducing an overarching competition policy would also help bring the issue of competition to centre stage and …

most frequently applied measures of concentration kbank concentration ratio (CRk) and Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) and … measures of concentration also show that Qatar, Bahrain and Oman are highly concentrated markets. The Panzar-Rosse H …-statistics suggest that banks in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE operate under perfect competition; banks in Bahrain and Qatar operate …

The lack of available prices in the Dutch life insurance industry makes competition an elusive concept that defies … direct observation. Therefore, this paper investigates competition by analysing several factors which may affect the … Xinefficiency, since severe competition would force firms to exploit available scale economies and to reduce X-inefficiencies. Both …

have vast implications for competition, concentration and the efficiency of the financial sectors. This paper examines the …, during the analyzed period (1997- 2002), the concentration of the commercial banks had a negative impact on the competition … impact of increasing concentration and new technologies, linked with the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) process, on the …

This paper investigates competition in the Dutch non-life insurance industry indirectly by measuring scale economies … and X-inefficiency, assuming that strong competition would force insurance firms to exploit unused scale economies and to …

The aim of the study is to estimate the level of competition and concentration in the Polish banking sector in 1997 …) have been used for the evaluation of competition. Concentration in the Polish banking industry was analysed by using … concentration indices (k bank concentration ratios (CR5) and the Herfindahl-Hirschman indices (HHI)). Empirical analysis shows that …

The aim of this analysis is to assess the changes in the measures of competition of the Polish banking sector in the … competition measurement in the banking sector (the Industrial Organisation Approach to Banking). In this paper three models have … been used for the evaluation of competition: the Panzar and Rosse model (P-R), the Lerner index (LI) and the Boone …