New Economics Papers
on Banking
Issue of 2006‒06‒24
two papers chosen by
Roberto J. Santillán–Salgado, EGADE-ITESM


  1. Ownership Concentration and Competition in Banking Markets By Alexandra Lai; Raphael Solomon
  2. La sensibilité de l'activité bancaire aux chocs macroéconomiques : une analyse en panel sur des données de banques luxembourgeoises By Abdelaziz Rouabah

  1. By: Alexandra Lai; Raphael Solomon
    Abstract: Many countries prohibit large shareholdings in their domestic banks. The authors examine whether such a restriction restrains competition in a duopolistic loan market. Blockholders may influence managers' output decisions by choosing capital structure, as in Brander and Lewis (1986). For the blockholder, debt has an additional benefit: it "disciplines" a manager by reducing the amount of free cash flow from which the manager can divert funds. A larger blockholder can exert more control. The authors show that an economy with blockholders often leads to a more competitive banking sector. Hence, a restriction on the size of blockholdings has anti-competitive results.
    Keywords: Financial institutions; Financial services; Financial system regulation and policies
    JEL: G21 G28 G32 L10
    Date: 2006
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bca:bocawp:06-7&r=ban
  2. By: Abdelaziz Rouabah
    Abstract: Cette étude examine la problématique de la sensibilité des soldes intermédiaires du compte de perte et profits des banques luxembourgeoises aux chocs monétaires, financiers et macro-économiques. L'analyse est conduite sur des données en panel et à fréquence trimestrielle couvrant la période 1994-2005. Les résultats des estimations obtenus et les simulations réalisées révèlent que les banques luxembourgeoises sont beaucoup plus sensibles aux variations du produit intérieur brut de la zone euro et aux chocs afférents à l'indice boursier européen DJE Stoxx qu'aux chocs monétaires. L'importance de cette réactivité est à relativiser dans la mesure où elle n'est pas un facteur fondamental de déstabilisation financière du secteur bancaire dans son ensemble.
    Date: 2006–05
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bcl:bclwop:cahier_etude_21&r=ban

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