Against a background of far-reaching structural change in the banking sector, this article
reviews the recent academic literature on developments in European banking. European …

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of bank-specific, industry-specific and
macroeconomic determinants of bank profitability, using an empirical framework that …

This paper addresses the effects of bank competition on the risk-taking behaviors of banks in
10 Latin American countries between 2003 and 2008. We conduct our empirical approach in …

Purpose–This paper aims to examine the determinants of performance of Greek banks
during the period of EU financial integration (1990‐2002). Design/methodology/approach …

Abstract The Panzar-Rosse test has been widely applied to assess competitive conduct,
often in specifications controlling for firm scale or using a price equation. We show that …

The deregulation of financial services in the European Union (EU), together with the
establishment of the Economic and Monetary Union, aimed at the creation of a level playing …

Studies of banking competition and competitive behavior both within and across countries
typically utilise only one of the few measures that are available. In trying to assess the …

This paper assesses empirically the relationship between the development of the banking
system and the stock market and economic performance for the case of Greece over the …

During the last few years, the Second Banking Directive has set out the principles of banking
in the single European financial market and provided equal competitive conditions for all …

Using both bank-and country-level data on banking sectors from 70 countries over the
period 1992–2006, this paper empirically investigates the joint home-and host-country …