Measures of concentration and competition are of vital importance for welfare-related public
policy toward market structure and conduct in the banking industry. Theoretical …

During a typical career in medicinal chemistry, most chemists will run across a G-protein
coupled receptor (GPCR) as a drug target. Almost invariably, the interest in the receptor will …

This article examines competitive conditions and market structure in the banking industry,
and investigates their interrelationship. Competition is measured using the Panzar–Rosse …

The proposed risk sensitive minimum requirements of the new Basel capital accord have
raised concerns about possible (acceleration of) procyclical behaviour of banking, which might …

The current debate on the possible procyclicality of the new Basel Accord pays little attention
to the procyclicality created by unsound loan loss provisioning. This article investigates …

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 neither a price …

Wettbewerb und Konzentration in der Kreditwirtschaft der EU Dieser Beitrag stellt eine
empirische Untersuchung der Wettbewerbsstruktur der Kreditwirtschaft in der EU insgesamt …

This book presents the results of several years of research on competition, concentration,
efficiency and performance in the European banking market. The author seeks to explain and …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of the unusually low interest rate environment
on the soundness of the United States banking sector in terms of profitability and risk‐…

This article is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the
banking industry. This approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, …