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Measuring the Level of Competition in the Argentine Banking Industry

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Marcelo Dabós (Department of Economics, Universidad de San Andrés)
Daniel Aromí (Department of Economics, Universidad de San Andrés)

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Loan rates in Argentina are high. The objective of this work is to test if market power is one of the causes of these levels of interest rates and to measure its effects. For that purpose we work with data of the period 1994-1999. The tests indicate that there is market power in the peso operation sector and perfect competition can not be rejected in the dollar operation sector. We also find that there was no significant change in our measure of market power during the years we have analyzed.

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Paper provided by Universidad de San Andres, Departamento de Economia in its series Working Papers with number 34.

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Date of creation: May 2001
Date of revision: May 2001
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Keywords: competition; Argentina; banks;

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G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
C5 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling

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  1. Bresnahan, Timothy F., 1982. "The oligopoly solution concept is identified," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 10(1-2), pages 87-92. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  5. Giovanni Dell'Ariccia & Ezra Friedman & Robert Marquez, 1999. "Adverse Selection as a Barrier to Entry in the Banking Industry," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 30(3), pages 515-534, Autumn. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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