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competition in banking

banking regulation, financial regulation, competition in banking, banking concentration, Thomas Philippon
Banking Regulation, Economic Thought, Financial Markets, Recommended Reading

Why There Has Been No Great Reversal in U.S. Banking

Diego Zuluaga/December 10, 2019June 19, 2022

Thomas Philippon’s The Great Reversal is an important book in which he warns of the decline of competition in many U.S. product markets. Not having studied antitrust issues for some time, I will leave criticism of his general thesis—that competition has indeed declined and that this is…

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Bank Capital, Bank of England, competition in banking, systemic risk, Too Big To Fail
Economic Thought, Free Banking, Money & Politics

Competition in (British) Banking

Tom Clougherty/May 6, 2016June 19, 2022

Writing for FT.com’s “The Exchange” blog, economists Diane Coyle and Jonathan Haskel suggest that Britain’s regulators — namely, the Competition and Markets Authority and the Bank of England — have got it wrong on competition in banking.  The authors argue that “the CMA and the BoE” have overlooked “the…

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