Concentration and Economies of Scale in the Belgian Financial Sector

Jozef Pacolet, Albert Verheirstraeten, Michel Smet and Georges Martin

Chapter 4 in Competition and Regulation in Financial Markets, 1981, pp 55-96 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract There exists a close relationship between the financial market structure on the one hand and the behaviour of intermediaries and the market performance on the other. Therefore one important aspect of financial market structure is analysed hereafter for Belgium: its degree of concentration. In addition, for the banking sector we will try to explain the observed degree of concentration by studying a main determinant of it: the possible existence of economies of scale.

Keywords: Financial Market; Balance Sheet; Gini Coefficient; Banking Sector; Lorenz Curve (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05585-2_4

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