A test of competition in Brazilian banking
This paper implements an empirical test of market power for Brazilian banking based on Bresnahan (1982) and Lau (1982). A dynamic version of the test is applied. The results show that the banking industry inBrazilis highly competitive, although the perfect competition hypothesis is rejected. The hyp...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2002 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP) |
| Repositorio: | Estudos Econômicos (São Paulo) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.usp.br:article/117799 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.usp.br/ee/article/view/117799 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | banking competition Brazilian banking concorrência bancária bancos brasileiros |
| Sumario: | This paper implements an empirical test of market power for Brazilian banking based on Bresnahan (1982) and Lau (1982). A dynamic version of the test is applied. The results show that the banking industry inBrazilis highly competitive, although the perfect competition hypothesis is rejected. The hypothesis that Brazilian banks behave like a cartel arrangement is also rejected. |
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