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 …

on the structure of competition in the credit card industry. Potential reasons for the lack of competitions are denoted … cost of fund. This result indicates that Turkish credit card market is characterized with lack of strong competition and …The high credit card interest rates in Turkey attracted considerable attention in recent years to regulate the Turkish …

This empirical paper adds to competition and industrial organization literature by exploring the interplay between … markets to be ruled by monopolistic competition, although estimation by revenue-equation does not reject monopoly hypothesis … competitiveness of the given regional market, and the results from non-structural methods of estimation suggest that bank competition …

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 …

amongst mortgage lenders and adds the idea of lender competition into this framework. Despite this addition, the results are …. When lenders are rational and face potential competition, they are able to use the bidding process as a means of generating …

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