We show that competing firms relax overall competition by lowering future barriers to entry. We illustrate our findings …-period profits. This dampens competition for serving the first-period market. …

banks. We find that more competition leads to more risk taking. We also examine the effects of bank competition on the …This paper studies empirically the relationship between competition and risk taking in banking markets. We exploit an … unique dataset providing information about all bank loans to Norwegian firms over several years. Rather than relying on …

the public, long-term systemic risk among banks tends to increase. From the dynamic perspective, bank penalties represent … long-term. In this respect, bank penalties resemble still waters that run deep. In contrast, a settlement with regulatory …

failures. In this model, there is no trade-off between bank competition and financial stability. -- general equilibrium ; bank … mechanisms for bank risk-taking studied in a large partial equilibrium literature. We show that competitive equilibriums maximize … banks is higher than that of banks enjoying monopoly rents, and is robust to the introduction of social costs of bank …

In this paper we analyse the bank merger between DnB and Gjensidige Bank in 2003, ranked by market share as number one … and number three in the Norwegian bank market. Focusing on loans to firms, our difference-in-differences analysis shows no … remedial measures imposed by the Norwegian Competition Authority on the two merging parties are also likely to explain some of …

competition and stability in banking. There are two basic channels through which competition may increase instability: by … incentives to take risk and raise failure probabilities. The competition-stability trade-off is characterized and the … implications of the analysis for regulation and competition policy are derived. It is found that optimal regulation may depend on …

This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank … guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank … cheaply, effectively shifting the risk of some of the potential sovereign default losses on the common central bank. …

incentives to implement such a trigger? We construct a theoretical model of a bank that is financed with debt and equity, and a … bank manager monitoring the bank’s loan portfolio. The manager must be incentivized to warn the board before a crisis …