Bank competition in the Middle East and northern Africa region

Diego Anzoategui, Maria Martinez Peria and Roberto Rocha

No 5363, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: This paper studies the extent of bank competition in the Middle East and Northern Africa region during 1994-2008, using non-structural measures of competition such as the H-statistic and the Lerner index. Both these measures suggest that banking sector competition in the region is lower relative to other regions and has not improved in recent years. An analysis of the determinants of competition across countries suggests that lower levels of competition in the Middle East and Northern Africa are explained by the region’s worse credit information environment and lower market contestability.

Keywords: Banks&Banking Reform; Markets and Market Access; Labor Policies; Emerging Markets; Access to Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-07-01
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