Bank Competition and Firm Creation /

This paper investigates the empirical relationship between competition in the financial sector and the creation of firms in the non-financial sector. It finds that bank competition has an overall positive effect on firm creation. However, consistent with theories of banking arguing that competition...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2001/021
Online Access:Full text available on IMF