banks can extract market power rents. We show that more bank competition results in lower economy-wide risk, lower bank … allocation and optimal levels of bank risk and capitalization. These results are at variance with those obtained by a large …

How can competition enhance bank soundness? Does competition improve soundness via the efficiency channel? Do banks … through which competition contributes to bank soundness. In a final examination of banks' heterogeneous responses to …

A puzzling but consistent result in the empirical literature on banking is that firms with close bank ties do not grow … faster than bank-independent firms. In this paper, we reconsider the link between relationship lending and firms' growth … and health status. We explore the influence of long-lasting bank relationships on employment and asset growth of a large …

employees. In the first part of the paper I am scoring the mission statement of each bank by following specific criteria. And in …

like size and price to book, duration gap, bank concentration, corruption, debt servicing socio-economic conditions, and …

estimates that the representative bank spends five additional Euros per Euro invested in IT-related assets in complementary … intangible assets or, equivalently, intangibles amount to approximately 10% of the economic value of the representative bank. The …