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Regulations, Market Structure, Institutions, and the Cost of Financial Intermediation / Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Luc Laeven, Ross Levine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Demirguc-Kunt, Asli.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w9890.
- NBER working paper series no. w9890
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2003.
- Summary:
- This paper examines the impact of bank regulations, market structure, and national institutions on bank net interest margins and overhead costs using data on over 1,400 banks across 72 countries while controlling for bank-specific characteristics. The data indicate that tighter regulations on bank entry and bank activities boost the cost of financial intermediation. Inflation also exerts a robust, positive impact on bank margins and overhead costs. While concentration is positively associated with net interest margins, this relationship breaks down when controlling for regulatory impediments to competition and inflation. Furthermore, bank regulations become insignificant when controlling for national indicators of economic freedom or property rights protection, while these institutional indicators robustly explain cross-bank net interest margins and overhead expenditures. Thus, bank regulations cannot be viewed in isolation; they reflect broad, national approaches to private property and competition.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- August 2003.
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