We investigate the determinants of Dutch households' preferences for income redistribution, using survey data. Our … redistribution, indicating that equal opportunities are considered important. Interestingly, support for redistributive policies is …

This paper investigates the cost efficiency and competitive behaviour of the non-life - or property and casualty … range from 5% to 10%. To measure competition directly, we apply a novel approach that estimates the impact of marginal costs … as indicator of inefficiency on either market shares or profits. Over time, competition in health insurance has increased …

The lack of available prices in the Dutch life insurance industry makes competition an elusive concept that defies … direct observation. Therefore, this paper investigates competition by analysing several factors which may affect the … Xinefficiency, since severe competition would force firms to exploit available scale economies and to reduce X-inefficiencies. Both …

This paper demonstrates that the level of competition in the existing Panzar Rosse (P-R) literature is systematically … overestimated and that the tests on both monopoly and perfect competition are distorted. This is due to the use of bank revenues … and empirical evidence to illustrate the impact of the misspecification on the estimation of competition and the …

absolute figures and relative to the size of smaller banks. This paper analyzes the impact of this development on competition … that competition increases with bank size. We show that misspecification of the P-R model in the existing literature leads …

The European trade and post-trade industries have seen increased competition in the past few years. As a result of the … practices of the three CCPs in European equity market-LCH.Clearnet SA, EMCF and EuroCCP. It concludes that, 1) competition in … competition among CCPs has led to a deterioration in the robustness of CCPs' risk management. …

costs and market equilibrium. Our theoretical findings are confirmed by an empirical analysis of competition in banking …

This paper is the first detailed and world-wide investigation of the developments in banking competition during the … the banking industry. The changes in competition over time are small on average, but substantial for several countries and … regions. Various Western economies faced a significant decline in banking competition during recent years. In particular, the …