Many studies have attempted to investigate the determinants and implications of competition in the banking industry …. The literature on the measurement of competition can be divided between the structural and non-structural approaches. The … structural approach infers the degree of competition from the structure of the market. The non-structural approach, based on the …

interval of values of the spillover parameter such that the relationship between competition and growth is an inverted-U-shape. …

is high, a single sender never discloses. Competition restores full disclosure only if some of the senders are … symmetric equilibria approach full disclosure as competition increases. …

This paper shows that dominant firms may wish to encourage competition in vertically-related markets. It shows that …

number of agents because competition reduces the agents' informational monopoly power. However, this environment also … tendency to choose more 'generous' (and more efficient) contract menus over time. We find that competition leads to a … substantially higher probability of trade, and that, overall, competition between agents generates the most efficient outcomes. …

secondary market where independent remanufacturers enter the competition. An environmental regulation imposing a minimum level … regulation. However, if an environmental regulation is to be implemented, collusion should be repressed since competition …

of financing and transport policy : is it possible to encourage intermodality without distorting competition on final …

We study the impact of local competition on assortments' attractiveness. The first aim of our paper is to provide a … develop a model of retail sales that takes into account competition intensity as well as assortment composition factors …

suppresses downstream competition but also and more surprisingly dampens upstream competition, leading to higher prices and lower …

. We show that the "conduct parameter" measuring the intensity of competition is not null during the period 1993 …