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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822930903321

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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (37 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

SchaeckKlaus

WolfeSimon

Soggetti

Banks and banking

Bank management

Banking

Banks and Banking

Banks

Commercial banks

Competition

Depository Institutions

Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models

Discrete Regressors

Econometric models

Econometrics & economic statistics

Econometrics

Economic & financial crises & disasters

Finance

Finance: General

Financial Crises

Financial crises

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Logit models

Macroeconomics

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Proportions

Systemic 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.