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Remarks on Bank Competition and Convergence Dynamics

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  • Mike G. Tsionas

    (Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YX, UK)

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In a recent paper, Karadima and Louri use frontier-based measures of market power and bank competition in an application to Euro Area banking. The purpose of the present note is to access their paper in a critical way, as there are certain fallacies and errors.

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  • Mike G. Tsionas, 2020. "Remarks on Bank Competition and Convergence Dynamics," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 13(5), pages 1-5, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jjrfmx:v:13:y:2020:i:5:p:101-:d:360173
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    1. Subal Kumbhakar & Sjur Baardsen & Gudbrand Lien, 2012. "A New Method for Estimating Market Power with an Application to Norwegian Sawmilling," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer;The Industrial Organization Society, vol. 40(2), pages 109-129, March.
    2. Jondrow, James & Knox Lovell, C. A. & Materov, Ivan S. & Schmidt, Peter, 1982. "On the estimation of technical inefficiency in the stochastic frontier production function model," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 19(2-3), pages 233-238, August.
    3. Maria Karadima & Helen Louri, 2020. "Bank Competition and Credit Risk in Euro Area Banking: Fragmentation and Convergence Dynamics," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 13(3), pages 1-28, March.
    4. Emir Malikov & Subal C. Kumbhakar & Mike G. Tsionas, 2016. "A Cost System Approach to the Stochastic Directional Technology Distance Function with Undesirable Outputs: The Case of us Banks in 2001–2010," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 31(7), pages 1407-1429, November.
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    1. Maria Karadima & Helen Louri, 2020. "Reply to “Remarks on Bank Competition and Convergence Dynamics”," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 13(6), pages 1-6, June.

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