Bank competition and crises revisited: New results

Boubacar Diallo ()

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 129, issue C, 81-86

Abstract: We study the relationship between bank competition and stability for 145 countries over the period 1997–2010. We use three measures of bank competition, namely the Boone indicator, the Lerner and the adjusted Lerner indices, and two econometric methods. Our results show that bank competition is detrimental to bank stability, and it also shortens the survival time of banking systems.

Keywords: Bank competition; Bank concentration; Financial reforms; Banking system fragility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 G01 G21 G28 L11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.02.015

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