... Corvoisier, S. and R. Gropp, 2002, Bank concentration and retail interest rates, Journal of Banking and Finance, 26(11), 2155-2189. Cottarelli, C. and A. Kourelis, 1994, Financial structure, bank lending ... emerges from the data. The adjustment tends to be slower when lending rates are below equilibrium in Germany, Belgium and Italy, while the reverse is true in Finland and Spain. In sum, retail bank ... Cottarelli and Kourelis, 1994, and Borio and Fritz 1995). Recent cross-country studies by Donnay and Degryse (2001), Toolsema et al. (2001) Heinemann and Schüller (2002) and Sander and Kleimeier...