technological diversification. Production makes use of different input varieties, which are subject to imperfectly correlated shocks …. In our model, the expansion in the number of varieties provides diversification benefits against variety-specific shocks …

diversification is less effective when jumps are frequent, unpredictable and strongly correlated. Public supervisors may also mind …

We study how financial market efficiency affects a measure of diversification of output across industrial sectors … and for various levels of disaggregation, we construct a benchmark measure of diversification as the set of allocations of … patterns disappear when we employ "naive" measures of diversification based on the equal spreading of output across sectors …

This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This … approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … competition can consider the entire banking market only. A caveat of the Boone-indicator may be that it assumes that banks …

policy perspective, it highlights the importance of structural reforms that help enhance competition in this sector. This …

This paper analyses the impact of loan market competition on the interest rates applied by euro area banks to loans and … deposits during the 1994-2004 period, using a novel measure of competition called the Boone indicator. We find evidence that … stronger competition implies significantly lower spreads between bank and market interest rates for most loan market products …