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The analysis of banking sector assets concentration measures in Croatia from 2003 to 2014

The subject of the research is measuring the concentration of total assets of banks in Croatia for period 2003-2014. The objective of this paper is to present and analyze the changes that have occurred and explain their impact on economic developments. The data used to calculate the concentration of the Croatian banking sector from 2003 to 2014 refers to individual data on the total assets of banks. The following indices have been used: Entropy index, Exponential index, Herfindahl-Hirschman index, Gini coefficient, Lorenz curve, concentration ratios, Hall-Tideman index and Rosenbluth index. The results of the conducted analysis show the increased concentration in selected period. The concentration was affected by the reduction in the number of banks because of fail or consolidation, as well as strengthening of smaller banks. However, despite this increase, the concentration is for now within permitted limits and there are still no negative effects on the market and its participants.

measures of concentration; Lorenz curve; banking sector; banking competition

Sažetak ovoga rada objavljen je u Book of Abstracts of the ISCCRO - International Statistical Conference in Croatia - Zagreb, Croatia, 05-06 May 2016 ; Conference Topic: „New Challenges of Official and Applied Statistics in European Union“, Vol. 1, No. 1. Chief Editors: Ksenija Dumičić ; Nataša Erjavec ; Mirjana Pejić Bach. Croatian Statistical Association Zagreb, 2016. ISSN: 1849-9864. p. 53.