. Theory offers competing hypotheses about how competition ought to influence firm entry and access to bank credit by mature …This paper tests how competition in local U.S. banking markets affects the market structure of non-financial sectors …

I review a subset of the empirical tools available for competition analysis. The tools discussed are those needed for …

insurance market), we study the impact of competition on premiums. We exploit variation in ratings-area-level competition …

; they do not include the likely fee increases resulting from less competition among auditors. We calculate that the latter …

expectations of future profits which, in turn, depend on the nature of competition within the market. In this paper we estimate a … by potential entrants, fixed costs faced by incumbent producers, and the toughness of short-run price competition are all …

, quality competition came more in the form of costs that vary with hotel size, and less in the form of costs that are fixed …

The correlation between productivity and competition is an oft-observed but ill-understood result. Some suggest that … there is a treatment effect of competition on measured productivity, e.g. through a reduction of managerial slack. Others … argue that greater competition makes unproductive establishments exit by reallocating demand to their productive rivals …

in consolidation has led to concern about competition in local markets for hospital services. We examine the effect of … market structure on competition in local hospital markets -- specifically, does the hardness of competition increase with the …