Switching costs are a leading cause of customer lock-in in banking, reducing the extent of competition and increasing … time (a lock-in effect). Thus, the extent of potential competition in Brazilian banking could be severely limited by these …

This paper demonstrates that the level of competition in the existing Panzar Rosse (P-R) literature is systematically … overestimated and that the tests on both monopoly and perfect competition are distorted. This is due to the use of bank revenues … and empirical evidence to illustrate the impact of the misspecification on the estimation of competition and the …

absolute figures and relative to the size of smaller banks. This paper analyzes the impact of this development on competition … that competition increases with bank size. We show that misspecification of the P-R model in the existing literature leads …

The aim of this paper is to assess the level of competition prevailing in the Spanish banking system. The current … banks. In both settings, a noteworthy increase in the degree of competition is identified at the turn of the eighties, when … hypothesis which states that concentration impairs competition. …

This paper examines the extent of banking competition in African subregional markets. A dynamic version of the Panzar …–Rosse model is adopted beside the static model to assess the overall extent of banking competition in each subregional banking …

use of a detailed bank-level panel data set, and measuring competition using the PR-H-statistic and Lerner index for the … banking sector players. Thus implying those banks in Nigeria earned their revenue under conditions of monopolistic competition …

This paper examines how the degree of interbank competition affects real economic growth, growth patterns, and consumer …

competition with a growing number of rival banks. …