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The impact of market power and funding strategy on bank-interest margins

The impact of market power and funding strategy on bank-interest margins
The impact of market power and funding strategy on bank-interest margins
This paper investigates the implications of market power and funding strategies for bank interest margins using a sample of 978 banks in 55 emerging and developing countries over an eight year period, 2000-2007. We provide additional insight by examining the complex interlocking of three key variables that are important for regulators: the degree of market power, funding sources and bank performance. The results show that market power increases when banks use internal funding to diversify into non-interest income generating activities. We also find that the high net-interest margins of banks in emerging and developing countries can be explained by the degree of market power, credit risk and implicit interest payments. In addition, our results suggest that interest margins among banks with market power are significantly more sensitive to internally generated funds than they are to deposit and wholesale funding
1351-847X
1-21
Wolfe, Simon
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Amidu, Mohammed
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Wolfe, Simon
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Amidu, Mohammed
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Wolfe, Simon and Amidu, Mohammed (2012) The impact of market power and funding strategy on bank-interest margins. European Journal of Finance, 1-21. (doi:10.1080/1351847X.2011.636833).

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This paper investigates the implications of market power and funding strategies for bank interest margins using a sample of 978 banks in 55 emerging and developing countries over an eight year period, 2000-2007. We provide additional insight by examining the complex interlocking of three key variables that are important for regulators: the degree of market power, funding sources and bank performance. The results show that market power increases when banks use internal funding to diversify into non-interest income generating activities. We also find that the high net-interest margins of banks in emerging and developing countries can be explained by the degree of market power, credit risk and implicit interest payments. In addition, our results suggest that interest margins among banks with market power are significantly more sensitive to internally generated funds than they are to deposit and wholesale funding

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e-pub ahead of print date: 17 January 2012
Organisations: Southampton Business School

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Local EPrints ID: 347148
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/347148
ISSN: 1351-847X
PURE UUID: 1f1fd697-e1fd-4325-ae37-53511d9df441
ORCID for Simon Wolfe: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9815-9535

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Date deposited: 17 Jan 2013 14:55
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:45

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Author: Simon Wolfe ORCID iD
Author: Mohammed Amidu

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