TY - BOOK AU - Ozdemir,Nilufer TI - Market structure, excess returns in the foreign exchange market and deviations from uncovered interest parity SN - 10168737 AV - HB1A1 INT PY - 2013/// CY - Abingdon PB - Taylor and Francis KW - Financial market integration KW - Uncovered interest parity KW - Emerging markets, Bank concentration , Interest rate parity N2 - This paper contributes to the uncovered interest parity literature by analyzing the role of financial market concentration in determining deviations from the uncovered interest parity condition. The theoretical section of the paper demonstrates that countries with concentrated financial markets will increase their welfare by discouraging financial flows through their manipulation of domestic interest rates. The empirical results support this finding and indicate that the correlation between financial flows and excess returns changes when the concentration ratio is above 0.68. This article suggests that the recent increases in banking sector concentrations around the world are likely to limit international financial flows and this will have welfare implications in countries with concentrated and competitive financial markets UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/10168737.2012.708050 ER -