... and financial bidders in each stage of the private bidding process for a sample of 606 takeovers announced between 2005 and 2016. To assess bidder interest, we use three proxies: bidder initiation, bidder competition in the private bidding process, and bidder persistence throughout the entire bidding process...

..., the analysis focused on the role of competition among sub-financial sectors in fostering the growth of green bond markets. Design/methodology/approach This study adopted Driscoll and Kraay fixed effect panel methods to account for country-level heterogeneity and enhance efficiency, using quarterly data...

... as the primary regression method, while the random-effect model and the corrected least square dummy variable (LSDVC) technique are also considered in robustness checks. Findings Competition may increase banks' funding liquidity risk. This finding holds for competition measures derived from the Boone index...

...Darshana D. Palkar Purpose Prior research has documented a guilt by association phenomenon whereby instances of corporate misconduct generate a negative spillover to innocent firms due to their shared industry membership with the wrongdoing firm. However, research on competitive dynamics predicts...

...Bijoy Rakshit; Samaresh Bardhan Purpose The paper measures the degree of bank competition in Indian banking over the period 1996–2016. Using bank-level annual data, we revisit the case of banking competitiveness during the prefinancial and postfinancial crisis and examine whether the global...

...Russell Barber; Dana Hollie Purpose The purpose of this study is twofold: (1) to examine the incremental contribution of product market fluidity (P_THREAT), another measure of competition from that of the Herfindahl index (H_COMP) and (2) to examine how a research and development (R&D) real...

... depositors. The authors ask whether behavior is consistent with low-income depositors being myopic, and analyze the role of competition and bank size. Design/methodology/approach – IC policy data from RateWatch cover more than 600 single-market banks from 2008-2012, and are matched to FDIC SOD data...

... joint-stock banks have higher degree of profit hiding. Banks that are more financially constrained hide more profit than those less constrained ones. The competition in the banking industry competition impacts the extent of profit hiding, with higher competition being associated with lower degree...

...Anthony M. Simpasa Purpose This study aims to evaluate the degree of competition in the Zambian banking sector in the wake of dynamic market shifts induced by entry of new foreign banks and privatisation of the state‐owned bank. Design/methodology/approach Competition is measured using...