Product Mix of the Spanish Banking Firms: Do Competition Clubs Exist?

Francisco Pérez and Emili Tortosa-Ausina

Chapter 8 in Bank Strategies and Challenges in the New Europe, 2001, pp 139-163 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The expansion and intensification of banking competition, which has occurred in Spain during the last ten years, has allowed banks and savings banks to define their competitive strategies with more freedom. This chapter analyses the similarities and the differences in the product mix of the firms and their time evolution. In particular, it aims to identify the different kinds of firms and, on this ground, to analyze whether competition leads to the homogenisation (convergence) of product mixes between firms or groups of firms (clubs). The empirical success is higher when specialisation clubs are considered, finding increased heterogeneity within the banking system as a whole but also increased homogeneity within certain clusters of banks and savings banks.

Keywords: Balance Sheet; Banking Sector; Competitive Strategy; Saving Bank; Theil Index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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Working Paper: PRODUCT MIX OF THE SPANISH BANKING FIRMS: DO COMPETITION CLUBS EXIST? (1998)
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DOI: 10.1057/9780333992760_8

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