According to Casu and Girardone (2006), concentration can helped to intensify market power. Therefore, if the concentration of bank increase will be improve the market power. Besides, higher prices were associated with market concentration. In the study of Casu …show more content…
Sathye (2005) also used Herfindahl Index as a measurement of market structure. Herfindahl Index is a summary measure of concentration of the market. The Herfindahl Index means the market share of total assets or deposits need to sum and squared.
Berger and Hannan (1997) study also stated the results of Herfindahl index is negative relationship with ROA and ROE. Based on Short (1979) stated that HERF was found to be more significant compare with the one, two and three-bank concentration ratios. Based on Rose and Fraser (1976) stated that the Herfindahl Index was found to be highly correlated with bank's profitability.
2.3.2 Measurement of Firm …show more content…
According to Shepherd (1972), the results showed that the variance of profit rates (rate of return) was negatively related to firm size in different industry. Apart from that, Hall and Weiss (1967) stated that all firm size which consists of total assets, total sales and number of employees have positive and significant relationship with return on assets. They interpret that large size of firms have more options than small firm and gain higher profit rates. Besides, the results of analysis of Dogan (2013) also stated that firm size and return on assets (profitability) is positive related. According to Sathye (2005), the bank size (log asset) are positively and significant with bank's profitability. This means that the size of banks led the bank obtained higher profits. The research conducted in Latin America also showed that average asset size of banks was positive relationship with bank's profitability, which are return on assets and return on equity (Chortareas, Garcia and Giradone,