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Theoretical and Applied Economics
No. 6 / 2014 (595)

Romanian banking activity spatial distribution between 2009 and 2012

Alina LUCA (BRĂTUCU)
Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania

Abstract. The financial crisis has influenced significantly the Romanian banking system activity causing different changes of Banks strategies between 2009 and 2012 (in 2013 changes are still registered). Within a poor credit market, the Banks market share registered important fluctuations, some of them being forced to close the activity.

This paperwork aims to identify the concentration level of Romanian banking market and to analyze the changes registered within crisis period. Furthermore, there are presented the market areas for the main banks within the Romanian banking system and the territorial location of their units.

Keywords: spatial distribution, banking system, nearest neighbor statistics.

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