Banking Competition and Economic Stability

Economic Freedom and Banking Stability in Selected Countries

This paper investigates the role of economic freedom in banking stability by using a panel data set for the period 1998-2013 in 43 selected countries. We turn our investigation to the effects of economic freedom on banking stability. The effects of economic freedom on financial stability are estimated. This paper calculates the z-score measure for banking stability. The findings from this study ...

Bank Type, Competition and Stability in Japanese Banking

March 2011 Abstract: We investigate whether the relationship between competition and stability varies across different bank types for Japanese banks during the period 2000-2009. In general we find that stability varies across bank types, in that banks with a regional focus (Regional, Tier 2 Regional, Shinkin and Credit Cooperative banks) are found to be more stable on average than nationwide (C...

Market Oriented Banking, Economic Growth and International Financial Stability

The financial sector received little attention in the literature on macroeconomic policy, growth and development until fairly recently. In fact, post-war macroeconomics in both the Keynesian and monetarist traditions paid little or no attention to banks and other financial institutions. This is somewhat ironic because both approaches were well aware of the role of banks in propagating the Great...

Bank Competition and Risk-taking in the Iranian Banking Industry

Abstract: The banking industry is one of the main sectors of the economy of any country, that its health is a necessary condition to play a positive role in the economic development of that country. The health of the banking system is assessed by the financial stability criterion, which is evaluated by various risk-taking indexes. On the other hand, the banks risk-taking is affected by various...

Competition in Banking