local credit markets. We provide evidence that marginal increases in interbank competition are detrimental to relationship … technologies are al-ready widely in use in the market by a large group of small mutual banks, an increase in competition may drive …

This paper investigates how group membership and competition among trustors interact with trust and trustworthiness in … competition leads to a decrease in trustworthiness, especially among partners. We argue that once competition comes into play …

This paper examines how product market competition affects firms’ timing of adopting a new technology as well as … but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand competition. More specifically, Cournot competition can lead to earlier … adoption than Bertrand competition. It shows also that competition toughness does not always reinforce adoption incentives …

outside option to public and other schools, this paper considers the effect of catholic competition on non-catholic school … performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and … academic achievement is found. In addition to raising achievement, higher levels of competition are not associated with a …

in such journals. Such academic competition is held to provide the right incentives for hard work, but there may be …

. We use this historical pattern as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of contemporary private competition …

point of view perfect competition is not always desirable …