2010 to the last quarter of 2019. In order to investigate this relationship, determinants of bank profitability are split … Montenegro does not give enough argument to support such explanation, and bank profitability can be explained by bank efficiency …

The paper investigates the link between bank concentration and a country's buyout market. We perform a macro level … for the size of the buyout market. The elasticity ranges from 1 up to 3 percent depending on which bank concentration … measure is employed and what segment of buyout market we look at. We also find that bank concentration is irrelevant for the …