Browsing Finance & Economics by Subject "Competition"

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    • Competition and microcredit interest rates: international evidence 

      Al-Azzam, Moh'd; Parmeter, Christopher ( Springer Verlag , 2019 , Article)
      The limited number of existing papers that link competition among microfinance institutions (MFIs) and microcredit interest rates, provide inconclusive and counterintuitive results. This paper uses data from 1997 MFIs ...

    • Competition in the Jordanian's Banking Sector 

      Al-Jarrah, Idries M ( EuroJournals, Inc. , 2010 , Article)
      This study investigates the cost of financial intermediation in the banking sector of Jordan over the 2001-2008 period. It assesses to what extent the relatively high and escalating bank interest margins, in this sector, ...

    • The cost of financial intermediation in the banking sector of Jordan 

      Al-Jarrah, Idries M. ( EuroJournals, Inc. , 2010 , Article)
      This study investigates the cost of financial intermediation in the banking sector of Jordan over the 2001-2008 period. It assesses to what extent the relatively high and escalating bank interest margins, in this sector, ...

    • Government ownership, competition, and the risk-taking attitude of the GCC banking system 

      Al-Khouri, Ritab ( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2012 , Article)
      Purpose - In the recent financial crisis, the risk-taking behavior of banks led to severe financial and economic instability. Many reasons have been attributed to the cause of the financial crisis. This paper attempts to ...