This paper investigates the degree of bank competition in the euro area, the U.S. and U.K. before and after the recent … financial crisis, and revisits the issue whether the introduction of EMU and the euro have had any impact on bank competition …. The results suggest that the level of bank competition converged across euro area countries in the wake of the EMU. The …

Do financial sector reforms necessarily result in expansion of credit to the private sector? How does bank ownership … Indian experience with liberalization of the financial sector to inform this debate. Using bank-level data from 1991-2007, we …

Mercosur? The objective of this paper is to answer this question by analyzing changes in bank behavior after crises in the … literature-to post-crisis bank behavior. Using a panel dataset of commercial banks during the period 1990-2006, we analyze the … impact of crises on four sets of financial indicators of bank behavior-profitability, maturity preference, credit supply, and …