On the measurement of market power in the banking industry

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 35, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 1023-1047

  Delis, Manthos D ^a,c   Staikouras, K Christos ^b   Varlagas, Panagiotis T ^b  

^a University of Central   (Greece)

^b Millennium Bank ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL GREECE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Banking industry; Conduct parameter method; Market power estimation; Revenue test

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749092865     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2008.02098.x     Document Type: Article

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