… First, in contrast to the previous literature that analyses the links between bank … of market
power on loan growth. We focus on loan growth because this figure reflects banks’ lending …

… impact of bank market power on the interest rates charged for loans to … loan specifics,
alongside panel data fixed-effect models, we elucidate that banks wielding greater market power …

… , our analyses reveal that banks are less likely to exercise their market power for … loan
contractual terms, we find that bank market power of lead banks is negatively correlated with loan …

… bank market power on financing constraints increases in financial systems that are more
bank … This paper investigates the impact of bank market power on investment financing …

… Empirical research has relied solely on concentration as a measure of market power. The …
and the market power hypothesis using these two alternative measures of market power and …

… bank instability and market power using various risk measures and by taking economic growth
… that although higher bank market power increases non-performing loans, such trends are …

… While loan market power can result in riskier loan portfolios, banks may protect their overall
franchise value using other means, such as increasing their equity capital or engaging in …

… These instruments have ex-ante theoretical plausibility because loan growth and cost-income
ratio are the potential sources of bank market power and are likely to be highly correlated …

… More specifically, we analyse the effects of credit information offices on market power based
on 162 banks from 42 sub-Saharan African countries over the period of 2001–2011. This …

… , our study is interested in bank behaviour given bank market power – of which we believe
… bank market power as being exogenous. The question of how the qualitative aspects of bank…