Competition and Efficiency in a Unified European Banking Market

By J. Bikker. 2004

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This book presents the results of several years of research on competition, concentration, efficiency and performance in the European banking market. The author seeks to explain and interrelate the numerous characteristics of the banking industry, and provide a detailed comparative analysis of various banking sectors throughout Europe.

Subfields: Finance

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Misspecifiation of the Panzar-Rosse Model: Assessing Competition in the Banking Industry (2006, unknown): “For an overview, see e.g. Bikker (2004).”
Competition and efficiency in the Dutch life insurance industry (2008, methodology): “Since we use four different empirical 2 For an overview, see Bikker (2004) or Bikker and Bos (2005). aggregate indicators (average profit margins, scale economies, X-inefficiencies and the Boone indicator), we will get a reasonable picture of competition in this market.”
The Dynamics of Bank Spreads and Financial Structure (2014, methodology): “(2005), Bikker (2004), and Claessen and Laeven (2003).(30) While the adjustment of spreads for the overall loan and deposit categories (model 5) does not differ markedly when the degree of competition (i.”
Bank Competition and Financial Stability: Much Ado About Nothing? (2015, unknown): “We decide to include the estimates arising from the use of these market structure measures in our analysis despite the recent assertions in the literature that concentration is not a suitable proxy for a lack of competition (e.g. Claessens and Laeven, 2004; Bikker, 2004).”
Bank Competition, Concentration and Efficiency in the Single European Market (2006, unknown): “The model is based on a general banking market model where the equilibrium output and the equilibrium number of banks are determined by profit maximisation at both the bank and the industry level (see for more details on the derivation of the H-statistics Bikker and Haaf, 2002: 2193-2194 and Bikker”
Banking Competition and Capital Ratios (2007, unknown): “Bikker (2004) offers evidence that the importance of traditional intermediation activities has been declining in Europe and that banks are therefore expanding into non-traditional lines of business.”
A new approach to measuring competition in the loan markets of the euro area (2011, unknown): “competition. An overview of the empirical literature is presented in Bikker (2004) and Bikker and”
Assessing Competition with the Panzar-Rosse Model: The Role of Scale, Costs, and Equilibrium (2012, background): “The authors are grateful to the participants of the research seminars at DNB and University of Groningen, and the audiences at the All China Economics International Conference in Hong Kong, the WEAI conferences in Beijing and Seattle, the VII International Finance Conference in Mexico, and the confe”
On Measuring Concentration in Banking Systems (2006, unknown): “In some countries, such as in the U.S., these concentration measures play a pertinent role in the enforcement of anti-trust laws (Bikker, 2004).”