measuring the banking sector competition proceed from the market structure and concentration measures. In contrast, modern … approaches to measuring competition rely on non-structural models and analysis of the behaviour of market participants. The paper … analyzes the degree of concentration and competition in the banking sector of the Republic of Serbia. The traditional and most …

A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization … role in the transmission from competition to soundness. We use a twopronged approach. First, we employ Granger causality … tests to establish the link between competition and measures of profit efficiency in banking, and find that competition …

This paper analyses the relation between competition and concentration in the banking sector. The empirical answer is … given by testing a monopolistic competition model of bank branching behaviour on individual bank data at county level … among incumbent banks on competition and discuss when, depending on the pre-merger structure of the market and geographic …

from achieving optimal scale. These findings have implications for the assessment of banking competition and for the rise …

the market power of the remaining banks and on competition between rivals? Do financial crises change this relationship …

last global financial crisis and during the crisis, with particular emphasis on the change in concentration and competition …, in an attempt to determine the relationship between competition, concentration, and risk-taking by banks. This paper also … financial stability. The results for competition are unambiguous, as competition had a positive impact on financial stability …

last global financial crisis and during the crisis, with particular emphasis on the change in concentration and competition …, in an attempt to determine the relationship between competition, concentration, and risk-taking by banks. This paper also … financial stability. The results for competition are unambiguous, as competition had a positive impact on financial stability …

competition in the retail banking industry. In some countries, the regulatory framework has been adapted to allow non-banks to …

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 …