''Afrique Centrale (CEMAC) and the level of bank competition at the regional level. Using a mix of quantitative and qualitative … excess liquidity in the region. Other data also indicate that bank competition within the CEMAC as a region is limited …

banks can extract market power rents. We show that more bank competition results in lower economy-wide risk, lower bank … capital ratios, more efficient production plans and Pareto-ranked real allocations. Perfect competition supports a second best …

This study reinvestigates the theoretical relationship between competition in banking and banks'' exposure to risk of … failure. There is a large existing literature that concludes that when banks are confronted with increased competition, they … regulators and central bankers, causing them to take a less favorable view of competition and encouraging anti …

banks to set stricter acceptance criteria, and that increased competition in the banking industry leads to riskier bank …

As in other sectors, competition in finance matters for allocative, productive and dynamic efficiency. Theory suggests …, however, that unfettered competition is not first best given the special features of finance. I review these analytics and … describe how to assess the degree of competition in markets for financial services. Existing research shows that the degree of …

competition in the banking sector. In spite of significant gains in efficiency made in recent years, operational costs and …