develop a methodological framework, which will allow a proper characterization of the level of competition in the …

This paper is the first detailed and world-wide investigation of the developments in banking competition during the … the banking industry. The changes in competition over time are small on average, but substantial for several countries and … regions. Various Western economies faced a significant decline in banking competition during recent years. In particular, the …

This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This … approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … competition can consider the entire banking market only. Like most other model-based measures, this approach ignores differences …

number of advertisers. In particular, with increased competition from rival advertisers, each firm's advertising decreases … prescription drugs, empirical results give evidence of the negative impact of competition on advertising. …

This paper analyses the impact of loan market competition on the interest rates applied by euro area banks to loans and … deposits during the 1994-2004 period, using a novel measure of competition called the Boone indicator. We find evidence that … stronger competition implies significantly lower spreads between bank and market interest rates for most loan market products …

recent studies on competition and efficiency in national banking sectors are related to concentration and profitability … and competition. There is also no robust relationship between concentration and profitability. …

information environments. We formally decompose the revenue effects coming from less competition into four types: a competition … that the seller benefits from less competition in markets with more complete valuation and information structures. …