Bank Competitive Condition and Bank Performance, Evidence from Emerging Markets

Abstract

This paper verify the level of bank competition and the relation between bank competition and bank performance of four emerging market countries which include Brazil, Russia, India and China.  The data is random selected from the BankScope database and consist of 692 set of observations during 2000 to 2014.  The final regression results declare that the bank market of China, Russia and Brazil are under the monopolistic competition, while the bank market in India is in the monopoly.  Moreover, the bank competition is negatively associated with the bank performance through the investigation.