...Sarah Herwald; Simone Voigt; André Uhde Purpose Academic research has intensively analyzed the relationship between market concentration or market power and banking stability but provides ambiguous results, which are summarized under the concentration-stability/fragility view. We provide empirical...

... was conducted, combined with an empirical analysis that used a two-step system generalized method of moments (GMM) and a sample of 45 banks operating in North African countries over the period 2005–2019. Findings The findings reveal a quadratic relationship between competition and banking stability in North...