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Competition and Entry in Banking: Implications for Stability and Capital Regulation

Boot, Arnoud W.A.; Marinc, Matej - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

We assess the influence of competition and capital regulation on the stability of the banking system. We particularly … competitive environment affect bank monitoring choices and the effectiveness of capital regulation? Our approach deviates from the … show that competition improves the monitoring incentives of better quality banks and deteriorates the incentives of lower …

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Early Mover Advantages

Bijwaard, Govert E.; Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Maasland, Emiel - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

This paper analyzes empirically whether and if so to what extent later entrants in the European mobile telephony industry have a disadvantage vis-à-vis incumbents and early mover entrants. To analyze this question a dynamic model of market share development and a series of static models are...

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The Death of Distance Revisited: Cyberplace, Physical and Relational Proximities

Tranos, Emmanouil; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This discussion paper resulted in an article in the Journal of Regional Science (2013). Volume 53, Issue 5(SI), pages 855-873. This paper studies the impact of physical distance and different relational proximity types on the formation of the Internet infrastructure. Although there is some...

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Network Asymmetries and Access Pricing in Cellular Telecommunications

Kocsis, Viktória - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

Network shares and retail prices are not symmetric in the telecommunications market with multiple bottlenecks which give rise to new questions of access fee regulation. In this paper we consider a model with two types of asymmetry arising from different entry timing, i.e. a larger reputation for...

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Complex Network Phenomena in Telecommunication Systems

Schintler, Laura A.; Gorman, Sean P.; Reggiani, Aura; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

Many networks such as the Internet have been found to possess scale-free and small-world network properties reflected by so-called power law distributions. Scale-free properties evolve in large complex networks through self-organizing processes and more specifically, preferential attachment. New...

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Gaming in Combinatorial Clock Auctions

Janssen, Maarten; Karamychev, Vladimir - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

Combinatorial Clock Auctions (CCAs) have recently been used around the world to allocate spectrum for mobile telecom licenses. CCAs are claimed to significantly reduce the scope for gaming or strategic bidding. This paper shows, however, that CCAs facilitate strategic bidding. Real bidders in...

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Identifying the Weights in Exchange Market Pressure

Klaassen, Franc - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

Exchange market pressure (EMP) measures the pressure on a currency to depreciate. It adds to the actual depreciation a weighted combination of policy instruments used to ward off depreciation, such as interest rates and foreign exchange interventions, where the weights are their effectiveness....

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The Macroeconomics of the Credit Crisis: In Search of Externalities for Macro-Prudential Supervision

Butter, Frank A.G. den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

This discussion paper led to publication in (E.F.M. Wubben (Ed.)) 'Institutions and Regulation for Economic Growth? Public Interest versus Private Incentives', 2011, pp. 187-209, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. In the analysis of the credit crisis of 2007-2010 a clear distinction should be made...

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Payment Choice, Image Motivation and Contributions to Charity

Soetevent, Adriaan R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

This paper examines the impact of payment choice on charitablegiving with a door-to-door fund-raising field experiment. Respondentscan donate cash only, use debit only, or have both options. Cash donations have lower visibility vis-a-vis solicitors than debit card donations. When debit replaces...

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The Social Dilemma of Microinsurance: A Framed Field Experiment on Free-Riding and Coordination

Janssens, Wendy; Kramer, Berber - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

Health shocks are among the most important unprotected risks for microfinance clients, but the take-up of micro health insurance typically remains limited. This paper attributes low enrolment rates to a social dilemma. Our theory is that in jointly liable groups, insurance is a public good....

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