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"Competition, Growth, and Performance in the Banking Industry"
Abstract: This paper analyzes competition, growth, and performance in the banking industry. First, we analyze the relationship between market structure and the performance of the banking industry. Furthermore, we test hypotheses on whether size matters for individual banks' profit performance. As such, we use extreme bounds stability analysis and a stability analysis in line with Sala-i-Martin (1997) to test for the reliability of the regression outcomes. It turns out that bank profits are inversely related to the amount of bank assets and are positively associated with the amount of tier-one bank capital.
Keywords: Bank Competition, Bank Performance, Bank Size, International Banking
JEL Classification: F30, G21, L23
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