From a sample of commercial banks in Asia Pacific over the 1994-2009 period, this study highlights that banks in less competitive markets exhibit lower loan growth and higher instability. Such instability is further followed by a decline in deposit growth, suggesting that Asian banks are also...

This paper provides new evidence on the benefits of relationship banking. Using a unique bank branch-level dataset covering 96 French counties (departments) from 2005 to 2013, we show that higher market share of regional banks and a stronger presence of geographically-focused banks significantly...

Bank regulators interfere with the efficient allocation of resources for the sake of financial stability. Based on this trade-off, I compare how different capital requirements affect default probabilities and the allocation of market shares across heterogeneous banks. In the model, banks‘...

This supplemental appendix extends the results in Mancini, Ranaldo, and Wrampelmeyer (2015) by presenting additional analyses and robustness checks. It also describes the procedure to construct proxies for the volume-weighted average haircuts applied by the ECB and Eurex Repo.The paper "The Euro...

On May 11-12, 2011, SUERF, the Belgian Financial Forum, the Brussels Finance Institute and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) jointly organised the 29th SUERF Colloquium New paradigms in money and finance? The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the...

We investigate the impacts of market structure and bank risk taking on the efficiency of Chinese commercial banks, employing a two-stage semi-parametric data envelopment analysis model. Our empirical results show that the intense market competition compels Chinese commercial banks to develop...

The objective of this research is to examine the relationship between market structure and the performance of the Tunisian banking system over the period 1990-2009. The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method was used to assess the scores of x-efficiency and scale efficiency, the hypotheses of...

Following the recent and on-going tightenings of capital requirements in response to the financial crisis many experts have predicted a decline in the importance of the banking sector as banks struggle to compete with other providers of financial intermediation. The purpose of our research is to...

Following the recent and on-going tightenings of capital requirements in response to the financial crisis many experts have predicted a decline in the importance of the banking sector as banks struggle to compete with other providers of financial intermediation. The purpose of our research is to...