disclosure levels. The following dissertation expands this research by investigating Twitter dissemination in Germany, a country … the prevalence of Twitter as a dissemination channel has developed over time in Germany, (ii) what type of firms apply …

financial system in which there is intense competition among banks for private households' funds. Following earlier work by … contracts is restrained by households' financial market access. However, we also assume spatial monopolistic competition among … monopoly rents also entails a positive effect; however, this beneficial effect is only relevant if competition among banks does …

liquidity shocks. But in contrast to these approaches we assume spacial monopolistic competition among banks. Since monopoly … positive effect. But this beneficial effect is only relevant if competition among banks does not sufficiently restrain monopoly … rents already. Thus our results suggest that in the bank-dominated financial system of Germany, in which banks intensely …

financial system in which there is intense competition among banks for private households' funds. Following earlier work by … contracts is restrained by households' financial market access. However, we also assume spatial monopolistic competition among … monopoly rents also entails a positive effect; however, this beneficial effect is only relevant if competition among banks does …

How intense is market competition in the Chinese economy? We extend to China, the literature that measures the … intensity of market competition in terms of the persistence of firm profitability from year to year. The fundamental notion is … that intense competition will quickly evaporate any short run quasi-rents enjoyed by any company, and force each to revert …

Financial and industrial economists have increasingly recognized the interaction between product market competition and … financing decisions of firms. This paper analyzes the relationship between product market competition (measured by Tobin's Q … that there are significant differences in the debt ratios and product market competition across different industries. Our …

present evidences on how competition affects the correlation of fair value information. Design/methodology/approach: this … value. In order to effectively inspect the mutual influence between the degree of industry competition and the value … industry competition is greater. To test the hypothesis, we use the comparison of the DFVPSit coefficient absolute value to …