This paper examines the nature of competition in the Spanish banking industry during the years before and after Spain … joined the European Monetary Union (EMU). The paper models competition in a product-differentiated market where banks choose … representative bank in response to the historically low official interest rates of the post Euro period. The results show that there …

The paper tests the effect of competition on bank risk-taking for a sample of up to 800 banks worldwide over the period … 1995-2010. Following the theoretical literature on bank competition and risk more closely than previous empirical research …, we measure competition at the bank level and separate the effects of competition in deposit and loan markets. We also …

investigate the intensity of key effects on bank competition as decomposed into specific bank activities. The sample comprises … literature of competition modeling has produced mixed results, the proposed methodology goes one step further in order to … the explanatory power of traditional collusion, relative market power and efficiency alongside other key controls on bank …

analyses suggest that the intensity of competition in the core market for bank lending increased after China's World Trade …-2006. The results show that banks in China operate under a system of monopolistic competition in general. The disaggregated … Organisation accession and alongside interest rate liberalisation. However, it seems that competition has become less intense in …

(IBBEA) to examine how increases in competition affect incumbents' voluntary disclosure choices. States implemented the IBBEA … over several years and to varying degrees, allowing us to identify the effect of increased competition on the voluntary … disclosure decisions of both public and private banks. We find that increases in competition are associated with an increase in …

of bilateral bank competition, construct a novel competition measure at the locality level, and assess how well it … competitor has fewer hierarchical layers. Intense bilateral bank competition increases local credit constraints, especially for …We interview 361 European bank CEOs to identify their banks' main competitors. We then provide evidence on the drivers …

of bilateral bank competition, construct a novel competition measure at the locality level, and assess how well it … competitor has fewer hierarchical layers. Intense bilateral bank competition increases local credit constraints, especially for …We interview 379 European bank CEOs to identify their banks' main competitors. We then provide evidence on the drivers …

This paper examines the link between bank competition measures and risk indicators using quarterly interbank exposures … competition and individual bank solvency risk. In this paper, we take one step forward in analyzing the relationship between … competition and systemic risk. We use counterfactual bank-level contagion risk indicators as a proxy of systemic risk to assess …

This paper analyzes the monthly evolution of bank competition in Mexico from 2008 to 2019 using different measures …. Subsequently, we analyze whether the 2014 financial reform had an effect on some of our competition measures. We use ordinary and … supporting the idea that the reform had a positive average effect and increased banks competition intensity during a few years …

loans, we utilize a new indexation mechanism exploiting a detailed bank-level dataset for the period January 2007-April 2020 … demonstrated by dispersion indices. Our empirical design also entails the construction of competition indicators for aggregated and … competition are related to the lower level of lending rate dispersion in housing and vehicle segments in a statistically …