What do we know about the role of bank competition in Africa?

Florian Leon

Working Papers from HAL

Abstract: This paper reviews the literature regarding the consequences of interbank competition. The literature has identified three reasons why competition in the financial sector is important: firstly, for efficient functioning of financial intermediaries and markets, secondly, for firms and households access to financial services and thirdly, for stability of the financial system. While special attention is dedicated to empirical papers focusing on African banking systems, this review also considers works on other developing and developed economies.

Keywords: Bank competition; bank efficiency; access to credit; financial stability; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-06-18
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-afr, nep-ban and nep-com
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01164864
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01164864/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: What do we know about the role of bank competition in Africa? (2015)
Working Paper: What do we know about the role of bank competition in Africa? (2015)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:wpaper:halshs-01164864

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().