How do banks react to increased interbank competition? Recent banking theory offers conflicting predictions about the … impact of competition on bank orientation - i.e., the choice of relationship based versus transactional banking - and bank … industry specialization. We empirically investigate the impact of interbank competition on bank branch orientation and …

competition. Pass-through of the VAT reduction was higher in product groups with a large number of competing products. We …

Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to … manufacturing sectors. we find that there is a positive and significant relation between the extent of competition and firms …

effect of private-school competition on students’ entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state … shares, students’ academic skills, and parents’ entrepreneurial occupation. -- private school competition ; entrepreneurship …

This study evaluates the role market competition plays in determining inflation based on sector-level data from OECD … of market competition. This study shows that inflation decreases with greater market competitiveness even after … controlling for productivity effects. Indeed, when market competition and productivity effects are both accounted for, trade …