The Impact of Banking Sector Competition on Banks’ Risk-Taking in Transition Economies of Central and South-Eastern Europe

Mustafa Arben () and Toçi Valentin ()
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Mustafa Arben: Assistant Professor University “Kadri Zeka” Gjilan, Faculty of Economics and CERGE-EI Teaching Career Integration Fellow, PraguePrague, Czech Republic
Toçi Valentin: Associate Professor University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina”, Faculty of Economics, PrishtinaPrishtina, Kosovo

South East European Journal of Economics and Business, 2018, vol. 13, issue 1, 31-42

Abstract: This paper uses the Panzar-Rosse H-statistic to provide empirical evidence on the impact of competitive behaviour of banks on risk-taking, using the Fixed Effects Vector Decomposition Method on panel data of banks in 15 Central and South-Eastern Europe countries during the period 1999-2009. The findings suggest that banking sector competition has had a negative impact on banks’ risk-taking implying that competition contributed to the improvement of the loan-portfolio quality. However, the results differ significantly when distinguishing between the EU and non-EU countries of the CESEE region. While for the EU countries the relationship between banking sector competition and risk-taking remains negative, this relationship is positive for the non-EU countries of the region, suggesting that an increase of competition in the non-EU countries may be detrimental for the stability of the banking sector in these countries. These results are robust to different model specifications and measures of competition

Keywords: Banking sector risks; Competition; Central and South-Eastern Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.2478/jeb-2018-0004

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