advertising is an important aspect of bank competition. …' advertising varies with the deposit market structure and whether bank profitability is influenced by advertising. My analysis … find that advertising has a positive and economically significant impact on bank profitability. These results suggest that …

default risk of entrepreneurs individually. Both banking systems compete for deposits, loans, and bank equity. While a … sophisticated system rewards entrepreneurs with low default risks by low loan interest rates, a simple system acquires more bank …

We study the effects of reputation and competition in a stylized market for experience goods. If interaction is …, we find that competition, coupled with some minimal information, eliminates the trust problem almost completely. …

We examine a Bertrand competition game between two intermediaries offering matching services between two sides of a …

This paper analyses the impact of competition among downstream firms on an upstream firm's payoff and on its incentive … to vertically integrate when firms on both segments negotiate optimal contracts. We argue that tougher competition … firm is better off encouraging competition when the downstream firms have high bargaining power. We derive implications on …

to pay more for exclusivity, the higher the demand (the lower the cost), that is precisely when competition yields the …

This Paper introduces optimal competition: the best form of competition in an industry that a competition authority can … competition outcome in an industry becomes more competitive as more money is spent in the industry, as the competition authority … puts less weight on producer surplus and more weight on employment. The relation between competition and entry costs is U …

impact of several dimensions of market competition and other factors on enterprise efficiency. We analyse 1992-1998 panel …, intensity, time path, and survival effects of competitive pressures. We find large, positive effects on TFP from competition in …