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In two-sided markets, one widely observes skewed pricing strategies, in which the price mark-up is much higher on one side of the market than the other. Using a simple model of two-sided markets, we show that, under constant elasticity of demand, skewed pricing is indeed pro?t maximizing. The...
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Using a simple model of two-sided markets, we show that, in the social optimum, platform pricing leads to an inherent cost recovery problem. This result is driven by the positive externality of participation that users on either side of the market exert on the opposite side. The contribution of...
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In this paper we present a theoretic framework to analyse pricing structures in debit card schemes. Card-holders value debit cards only to the extent that these are accepted by retailers, while retailers in turn benefit from a widespread usage of cards. This points to the two-sided nature of the...
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-world developments have spawned a huge newscholarly literature on central bank communicationmostly empirical, and almost all of it … and powerful part of the central bank's toolkit since it has the ability to move financial markets, to enhance the …
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stronger competition implies significantly lower spreads between bank and market interest rates for most loan market products … pass-through of market rates to bank interest rates, we likewise find that banks tend to price their loans more in … stronger, we observe larger bank spreads (implying lower bank interest rates) on current account and time deposits. This would …
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advantage drives banks to seek out specific markets. Using detailed, bilateral data of bank ownership for a large number of …
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by assessing the relation between bank size and market power. We use an extended version of the Panzar-Rosse (P-R) model … that allows bank size to affect market power. Based on a large sample of more than 18,000 banks in 101 countries comprising … more than 112,000 bank-year observations, we show that market power varies with bank size. Large banks have substantially …
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Measuring bank performance solely on the basis of profitability conveys significant information about past performance …
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This paper examines how credit risk affects bank lending and the business cycle. We estimate a panel Vector …, inflation, the short-term interest rate, bank lending, as well as loan loss provisioning by banks (as proxy for credit risk …). Our main findings are that: (i) bank lending and loan loss provisioning are important drivers of business cycle …
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This study contributes to the empirical evidence on the lending channel in the Netherlands using individual bank data … the lending channel theory. A contribution of this study is that it gives evidence that the monetary policy impact on bank … lending also depends on the market segment in which a bank is active. The evidence suggests that the lending channel is not …
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