This study examines the influence of competition on the financial stability of the commercial banks of Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) over the 1990 to 2014 period. Panzar-Rosse H-statistic, Lerner index and Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) are used as measures of competition, while Z-score, non-performing loan (NPL) ratio and equity ratio are used as measures of financial stabili...

Conventional wisdom indicates that economic specialization can promote economic growth, whereas economic stability is theoretically associated with diversified economies. This conflicting relationship between specialization and diversity has been questioned, as regional scientists have suggested that specialization and diversity can coexist in a regional economy and proposed the concept of dive...

Abstract We aim to understand the effect of market and firm-level concentration on return equity in Indian life microinsurance industry (LMI). This research is one first attempts empirically test structure–performance issues India. Using data 14 companies that remained active LMI during 2009–2019, we demonstrate firms scored better profitability measures whenever competitive pressures were lowe...

This paper explores the effect of competition on prices and frequencies for Interurban rail market in Europe. Intramodal is assessed by Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI). Intermodal takes into account new types service such as coach carpooling services. The originality analysis stems from method database used. results show that intra-modal has a significant impact but not economy class because o...

the aim of this study was to determine the socioeconomic inequalities in nonuse of seatbelts in cars and helmets on motorcycles in kurdistan province, west of iran, 2009.the data used in this study was collected from the data gathered in non-communicable disease surveillance system (ncdss) in 2009 in kurdistan. a total of 1000 people were included in this study. the outcome variable of this stu...

porous silicon (ps) samples have been prepared by electrochemical anodization of p-type silicon wafer by varying hf concentrations in the electrolytic solution. the structural, surface morphological, optical and surface composition analysis of the prepared samples were done by x-ray diffraction (xrd), scanning electron microscopy (sem), photoluminescence (pl) and fourier transform infrared (fti...

Abstract The topic of this study has been the examination and comparison competitive balance Spanish English first leagues soccer, called La Liga Santander Barclays Premier League. basis for research project provided by a database sixteen hundred elements, containing data two starting from 2014/2015 season up to 2017/2018 season. When choosing time period study, we intended avoid having deal wi...