Increasing consolidation and vertical coordination in the food chain have made the prospect
of market power abuses by powerful food manufacturers and retailers an issue and a policy …

Abstract The 'competition–stability/fragility'nexus is one of the more debated issues in the
banking literature. However, while there is ample evidence concerning the relationship …

This paper primarily reviews the panel stochastic frontier (SF) model in which the composite
error term 𝜀 it has four components, ie 𝜀 it= τ i− η i+ vit− uit, where η i and uit are the …

In this study, we investigate the impact of bank market power on the change in NPL ratios in
the euro area over the period 2005–2017 by employing a penalized quantile regression …

Purpose Because of the increasing differential between farm and retail prices, the study
proposes to investigate the extent of market power in the rice value chain of Bangladesh …

This study estimates output market power in the Chinese banking industry using the multi-
output Lerner index. We propose a minimum distance cost function approach, which allows …

In this article we estimate individual banks' Lerner indices for a large group of countries in
the years 1994–2012 by means of the econometric method proposed by Kumbhakar et …

This paper analyses the effect of bank lending and fee income on Islamic and conventional
bank's performance. The paper builds a theoretical model and provides empirical evidence …

In this article we explain how Islamic banks (IBs) maximize profitability in the presence of
costly religiosity. Because of strong competition between IBs and conventional banks (CBs) …

This paper evaluates the degree and determinants of banks' market power in 13 MENA
countries for the years 2000 to 2018, with a special focus on customers' switching costs and …