What drives bank competition? Some international evidence

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 36, Issue 3 II, 2004, Pages 563-583

  Claessens, Stijn ^a,b   Laeven, Luc ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CEPR   (Netherlands)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Banking; Competition; Contestability; Panzar and Rosse

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142767051     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mcb.2004.0044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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