COMPETITION IN THE ALBANIAN BANKING MARKET

Spatial competition and market power in banking

Banks in non-metropolitan areas compete in a spatially differentiated environment. Non-metro community banks have been insulated from increasing competition from metro banks due to their reliance on soft information in relationship lending. Proximity to borrowers, therefore, may be an important source of market power for non-metro community banks. This paper estimates a structural model of the ...

Market Size, Service Quality, and Competition in Banking

Local banking markets depict enormous variation in population size. Yet this paper finds that the nature of bank competition across markets is strikingly similar. First, markets remain similarly concentrated regardless of size. Second, the number of dominant banks is roughly constant across markets of different size; it is the number of fringe banks that increases with market size. Third, servi...

The relationship between competition law and capital market in Iran

stock market is run by special regulations. accordingly, analyzing the issues about the relation between the competition law and capital market such as stock market officials and their boundaries in the context of setting, controlling and  enforcing rules, the generality or specificity of such rules, the controllability of stock market in comparison to the general competition rules and the stat...

Bank Competition and Risk-taking in the Iranian Banking Industry

Abstract: The banking industry is one of the main sectors of the economy of any country, that its health is a necessary condition to play a positive role in the economic development of that country. The health of the banking system is assessed by the financial stability criterion, which is evaluated by various risk-taking indexes. On the other hand, the banks risk-taking is affected by various...

Competition in Banking