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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788688903321

Autore

Cihak Martin

Titolo

Are More Competitive Banking Systems More Stable? / / Martin Cihak, Simon Wolfe, Klaus Schaeck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-0036-7

1-4527-8848-0

1-283-51897-X

1-4527-0150-4

9786613831422

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (37 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

WolfeSimon

SchaeckKlaus

Soggetti

Banks and banking

Bank management

Banks and Banking

Econometrics

Finance: General

Macroeconomics

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models

Discrete Regressors

Proportions

Financial Crises

Banking

Finance

Econometrics & economic statistics

Economic & financial crises & disasters

Competition

Commercial banks

Logit models

Systemic crises

Econometric models

Financial crises



United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"June 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. LITERATURE REVIEW""; ""A. Competition and Concentration""; ""B. Concentration and Stability""; ""C. Competition and Stability""; ""D. Regulation, Supervision and Stability""; ""III. METHODOLOGY""; ""A. Duration Analysis""; ""B. Logistic Probability Analysis""; ""C. Panzar and Rosse (1987) H-Statistic""; ""IV. DATA AND SUMMARY STATISTICS""; ""V. REGRESSION RESULTS""; ""A. Main Results""; ""B. Robustness Tests""; ""C. Competitiveness, Regulation and Systemic Crises""; ""VI. CONCLUDING REMARKS""; ""DEFINITIONS OF VARIABLES AND DATA SOURCES""

""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

This paper provides the first empirical analysis of the cross-country relationship between a direct measure of competitive conduct of financial institutions and banking system fragility. Using the Panzar and Rosse H-Statistic as a measure for competition in 38 countries during 1980-2003, we present evidence that more competitive banking systems are less prone to systemic crises and that time to crisis is longer in a competitive environment. Our results hold when concentration and the regulatory environment are controlled for and are robust to different methodologies, different sampling periods, and alternative samples.