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Has Competition in the Japanese Banking Sector Improved?

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Hirofumi Uchida (Indiana University and Wakayama University)
Yoshiro Tsutsui () (Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University)

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This paper investigates whether competition in the Japanese banking sector has improved in the last quarter of the 20th century. By estimating the first order condition of profit maximization, together with the cost function and the inverse demand function, we found that competition had improved, especially in the 1970s and in the first half of the 1980s. The results fail to reject a Cournot oligopoly for city banks for most of the period, while they do reject it for regional banks for the overall period. This suggests that competition among city banks was stronger than that among regional banks.

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Paper provided by Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics and Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) in its series Discussion Papers in Economics and Business with number 02-09-Rev.

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Date of creation: Jun 2002
Date of revision: Sep 2003
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Keywords: Japanese banks; degree of competition; loan market.;

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G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Mortgages
L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets

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