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Structure and Market Power in the South African Banking Sector

Nomasomi Ngonyama & Munacinga Simatele

African Finance Journal2020https://doi.org/10.10520/ejc-finj-v22-n2-a2article
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Policy makers determine the nature of competition in industries using measures such as the Hirschman-Herfindahl index and concentration ratios. The literature however suggest that more direct measures in the New Empirical Industrial Organisation approach are more direct and better measures of competition. The findings of these measures however sometimes conflict and do not align with the observed behaviour of banks. The paper employs three different measure of competition including the Lerner Index, the Panzar-Rosse H-statistics and Boone indicator to interrogate which measure gives results that are more indicative of market behaviour. The results indicate that the Lerner and Boone indicator measures maybe more accurate as a measure of bank behaviour. Further, we suggest that the main reason for contradictory results and may be more a data than a methods problem.

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@article{nomasomi2020,
  title        = {{Structure and Market Power in the South African Banking Sector}},
  author       = {Nomasomi Ngonyama & Munacinga Simatele},
  journal      = {African Finance Journal},
  year         = {2020},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.10520/ejc-finj-v22-n2-a2},
}

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0.26

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.00 × 0.4 = 0.00
M · momentum0.20 × 0.15 = 0.03
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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