Competitive Environment Hypothesis in Turkish Banking System

This paper investigates the persistence of profit in Turkish banking system for the period of 2004:1 – 2009:4 by focusing net income after tax to total equity (ROE) as profit measures by utilizing panel unit root tests. We found that competition among surviving banks is high in the Turkish Banking...

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Main Authors: Alper Aslan, Kemal Koksal, Oguz Ocal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EconJournals 2011-06-01
Series:International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues
Online Access:http://mail.econjournals.com/index.php/ijefi/article/view/28
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author Alper Aslan
Kemal Koksal
Oguz Ocal
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description This paper investigates the persistence of profit in Turkish banking system for the period of 2004:1 – 2009:4 by focusing net income after tax to total equity (ROE) as profit measures by utilizing panel unit root tests. We found that competition among surviving banks is high in the Turkish Banking System for the period 2004:1 – 2009:4 which means that competitive environment hypothesis is valid in Turkish banking system. Keywords: Persistence; ROE; Turkish Banking System.
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spelling doaj.art-6bf25998c1f54b74873bf48f1f4ab0142023-02-15T16:09:51ZengEconJournalsInternational Journal of Economics and Financial Issues2146-41382011-06-0112Competitive Environment Hypothesis in Turkish Banking SystemAlper Aslan0Kemal Koksal1Oguz OcalNevsehir University, NevsehirCelal Bayar University, Manisa This paper investigates the persistence of profit in Turkish banking system for the period of 2004:1 – 2009:4 by focusing net income after tax to total equity (ROE) as profit measures by utilizing panel unit root tests. We found that competition among surviving banks is high in the Turkish Banking System for the period 2004:1 – 2009:4 which means that competitive environment hypothesis is valid in Turkish banking system. Keywords: Persistence; ROE; Turkish Banking System. http://mail.econjournals.com/index.php/ijefi/article/view/28
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Kemal Koksal
Oguz Ocal
Competitive Environment Hypothesis in Turkish Banking System
International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues
title Competitive Environment Hypothesis in Turkish Banking System
title_full Competitive Environment Hypothesis in Turkish Banking System
title_fullStr Competitive Environment Hypothesis in Turkish Banking System
title_full_unstemmed Competitive Environment Hypothesis in Turkish Banking System
title_short Competitive Environment Hypothesis in Turkish Banking System
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url http://mail.econjournals.com/index.php/ijefi/article/view/28
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