Comparative Analysis of Levels of Banking Sector Markets Concentration in CEE Region
Banking sector is an important development factor of the total financial and economic system. Number of banks and dispersion of their individual shares defines competitive structure of banking sector, manifested by its concentration. Market concentration may be presented as a function of a number...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institute of Economic Sciences
2016-06-01
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| Series: | Economic Analysis |
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| Online Access: | http://www.library.ien.bg.ac.rs/index.php/ea/article/view/329/325 |
| Summary: | Banking sector is an important development factor of the total financial and
economic system. Number of banks and dispersion of their individual shares defines competitive
structure of banking sector, manifested by its concentration. Market concentration may be presented
as a function of a number of enterprises competing in a market and their individual comparative
market shares. Concentration analysis is significant with regard to the fact that the level of
concentration demonstrates relations among competitors in a market, as well as influence each
competitor has on consumers, branch and economy as a whole. Starting from 2008 crisis, domino
effect of which hit banking sector and has had a huge impact on it, authors of this paper aimed at
establishing a level of market concentration of the banking sector in Serbia and countries in the region
in 2015 by application of a large number of market concentration indicators. |
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| ISSN: | 1821-2573 2560-3949 |