What Drives Bank Competition? Some International Evidence

Stijn Claessens; Luc Laeven

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 36, No. 3, Part 2: Bank Concentration andCompetition: An Evolution in the Making A Conference Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bankof Cleveland May 21-23, 2003. (Jun., 2004), pp. 563-583.

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