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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Foreign ownership and market power in banking: evidence from a world sample
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Manthos D Delis
  • Sotiris Kokas
  • Steven Ongena
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0022-2879
Volume 48
Number 2-3
Page Range 449 - 483
Date 2016
Abstract Text The nexus between ownership and competition in the banking sector is a major concern to policymakers around the world but one that is rarely comprehensively examined. For 131 countries and 13 years we match bank ownership with over 50,000 bank-year estimates of individual bank market power. We find that ownership does not explain market power at the individual bank level. However, at the country level, foreign bank ownership has a positive and significant impact on market power mainly because foreign banks enter through mergers or acquisitions and not through greenfield investments. The observed increases in market power primarily originate from decreases in the marginal cost.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1111/jmcb.12306
Other Identification Number merlin-id:12102
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