Theory makes ambiguous predictions about the relationship between market structure and competitiveness of the banking system and banking sector stability. Empirical studies focusing on individual countries provide similarly ambiguous results, while cross-country studies point mostly to a positive relationship between competition and stability in the banking system. Where liberalization and unfe...

Today at a time of global economic and financial crisis, timber industry in Slovakia, as well as other industry, is not just trying to look inside for company reserves in production processes, but also identifies new trends in production and its competitiveness in world markets. It is obvious that the pulp and paper industry needs to keep up the competitive pressure with new trends in efficient...

The authors acknowledge the financial support of Spanish Ministry Economy and Competitiveness, along with FEDER funding (Project: BIA2017-85098-R).

a r t i c l e i n f o If regional competitiveness is equated to the capacity to attract and preserve investments, then the perception investors have of the region's characteristic is fundamental. This perception is a result of a complex integration of multiple criteria. This paper approaches the analysis of regional competitiveness by techniques of multi-criteria sorting. An ELECTRE-based prefe...

This study presents an empirical evidence concerning the comparison of  the dynamics of competitiveness in the creative and manufacturing industries. It investigated the impact of the economic crisis in the behavior of the competitiveness of those industries. The samples were 42 firms taken from 3 sub-sectors of the creative industries and 3 sub-sectors of the manufacturing industries listed in...

This paper analyzes the impacts of financial liberalization and foreign bank entry on competitiveness and soundness of domestic banking system as well as credit growth in association with financial sector development, focusing on MENA region’s comparative benchmarking performances with those of middle -income countries. We find that financial sector development is positively related to foreign ...

The present study investigates the effect of financial development on sustainable competitiveness and its components (natural capital, resource intensity, social cohesion) in Arctic region. We employ bank-based, stock-market based, composite index to measure development. To deal with endogeneity bias, system GMM is utilized. results show a positive significant competitiveness. estimates also as...