removing barriers to bank entry on bank competition and economic growth. As governments were not concerned about systemic … stability in this period, we are able to isolate the effects of bank competition from those of state implicit guarantees. We … find that the introduction of free banking laws stimulated the creation of new banks and led to more bank failures. Our …

Bank focused how to increase profit. But, sustainability of growth is more important. This study examines the effect of … becomes important related to the bank's strategy to continue and grow in order to expand its business maximally while …

-sized enterprises (SMEs), this study seeks to identify the effect of bank market power on aggregate growth components. We test for a pre …-crisis sample whether bank market power spurs or hinders the reallocation of resources across informationally opaque firms … in Germany. The results show that bank markups spur aggregate SME growth, primarily through technical change and the …

This paper analyses the effect of bank profitability on economic growth. While policymakers have shown major concerns … for low levels of bank profitability, there are no empirical studies on the growth effects of bank profitability. To fill … this gap, we investigate the impact of bank profitability on economic growth using a sample of 133 countries during the …

maximize bank profits. These contracts are derived for both a monopolistic and a competitive banking industry. The analysis …