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An application of Panzar-Rosse Approach in assessing banking sector competition in Zimbabwe

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  • Pierre Le Roux
  • Sanderson Abel

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An assessment of bank competition is important for a number of reasons. Banking competition helps to foster economic growth. It enhances efficiency as it forces managers to cut down on costs to maintain profitability, improves the corporate sector’s access to finance, and reducing the chances of financial crises. Banking competition facilitates provision of financial services […]

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  • Pierre Le Roux & Sanderson Abel, 2016. "An application of Panzar-Rosse Approach in assessing banking sector competition in Zimbabwe," Working Papers 82, Economic Research Southern Africa.
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    1. Koch, Steven & Alaba, Olufunke, 2010. "On health insurance and household decisions: A treatment effect analysis," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 70(2), pages 175-182, January.
    2. Aboozar Hadavand, 2017. "Misperceptions and mismeasurements: An analysis of subjective economic inequality," Working Papers 449, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality.
    3. Claire Vermaak, 2010. "The Impact of Multiple Imputation of Coarsened Data on Estimates on the Working Poor in South Africa," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2010-086, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    4. Reza C. Daniels, 2012. "Univariate Multiple Imputation for Coarse Employee Income Data," SALDRU Working Papers 88, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town.
    5. Claire Vermaak, 2012. "Tracking poverty with coarse data: evidence from South Africa," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 10(2), pages 239-265, June.

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    Keywords

    Africa; Banking Regulation; central bank; Competition; Sub-Saharan Africa;
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    JEL classification:

    • C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
    • D4 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General

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