Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between bank-specific
characteristics and profitability in European banking sector to find the role of internal factors …

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 …

The aim of this study is to examine the profitability behaviour of bank-specific,
industryrelated and macroeconomic determinants, using an unbalanced panel dataset of …

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 …

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 …

This paper rigorously investigates the determinants of bank competition for 146 countries
over the sample period 1999–2011. The results employing both the Lerner index and the …

The objective of this paper is to study the relationship between competition, cost efficiency,
and bank stability for a sample of 222 commercial banks operating in the Middle East and …

This paper is the first detailed and world-wide investigation of the developments in banking
competition during the past fifteen years. Using the Panzar-Rosse approach, we establish …

The legal authorities set the minimum capital level for the banks. Recent studies have shown
that variables used to explain capital structure of non financial firms, such as size, profit …

We examine the impact of financial sector FDI (FSFDI) on economic growth via the efficiency
channel. We estimate a panel data model for 11 Central and Eastern European countries in …