Competition and Stability: An Analysis of the Turkish Banking System

Mer Skenderoglu and Serpil Tomak
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Mer Skenderoglu: Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ni de University, Turkey
Serpil Tomak: Vocational School of Social Sciences,Department of Management and Organization, Mersin University, Turkey

International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, 2013, vol. 3, issue 3, 752-762

Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between competition and stability in the Turkish banking sector using quarterly bank level data of 15 private commercial banks (domestic and foreigned-owned) between 2002-2012. There have been many theories stand out on the relationship between competition and stability of the banking sector so far. But theories of the competition-fragility view and competition-stability view are widely accepted theories in the literature. Dynamic panel data approach is employed to test the related tehories. However our findings indicate that the relationship between concentration and competition is not clear enough to emphasize a strict inference.

Keywords: Competition; banking stability; financial system fragility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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