Bank Competition in the Middle East and Northern Africa Region

By D. Anzoategui, Maria Martinez Peria, Roberto Rocha. 2010

125 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This paper studies the extent of bank competition in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) 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 MENA 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 MENA are explained by a worse credit information environment and lower market contestability.

Subfields: Accounting, Finance

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/fcca5c53f784198df4f9ebf910f569e624517805

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Accounting

1. Aktham Issa Maghyereh
2. B. Awartani
3. Adolfo Barajas
4. M. Belkhir

In Finance

1. Aktham Issa Maghyereh
2. B. Awartani
3. Adolfo Barajas
4. M. Belkhir
5. R. Chami
6. Reza Yousefi
7. Dana Al-Najjar

Citations in the corpus

• The Finance and Growth Nexus Re-Examined: Do All Countries Benefit Equally? (2013, background): “…borrowers as a share of the adult population; (iii) banking competition, measured by the H-statistic, estimated on an individual country basis by Anzoategui et al. (2010);24 and (iv) access to banking services as reflected in enterprise surveys which ask whether firms perceive lack of financing…”
• Institutions and corporate capital structure in the MENA region (2016, background): “Likewise, in most of these countries, the banking sector is highly concentrated, and barriers to entry of new banks are typically high (Turk-Ariss, 2009; Anzoategui et al., 2010).”