(Gabaix, 2011) for the banking sector, introducing Bertrand competition and heterogeneous banks charging variable markups …. Using this framework, we show conditions under which idiosyncratic shocks to bank lending can generate aggregate … sector for many countries is indeed granular, as the right tail of the bank size distribution follows a power law. We then …

Competition is claimed to be beneficial in development projects promoting micro and small enterprise finance although … the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for Kazakhstan, and investigate which strategy contributes more to …

This paper analyzes the causal relationship between institutional diversity in domestic banking sectors and bank … stability. We use a large bank- and country-level unbalanced panel data set covering the EU member states' banking sectors … of institutional diversity in the domestic banking sector positively affects bank stability. The positive relationship …

market power appears to be constrained by competition and largely determined by demand side factors. Finally, we find that …

Boone (2008a) proposes a new competition measure based on Relative Profit Differences (RPD) with superior theoretical … indicator fails to correctly indicate competition. A proposed augmented indicator based on RPDs performs better. The traditional … Lerner-Index is still the only meas-ure that correctly indicates the expected competitive changes. -- Competition ; Boone …

"Wettbewerb" und "Bildungspolitik" stehen in zweifacher Hinsicht im Zusammenhang: Erstens erfordert der internationale … Wettbewerb den Erhalt und Ausbau des deutschen Humankapitalbestands. Damit dabei die Ressourcen effizient eingesetzt werden, ist …

broadband infrastructure in rural areas of Germany. Such subsidies are subject to state aid control by the European Commission … subsidies complied with EU state aid rules, both in terms of effectiveness and competition. …

implement increased competition in the health insurance system of Germany (or somewhere else), detailed analyses are needed and …A draft of a reform towards "socially bounded competition" within the health care system indicates, first of all, that …

oneself (self-competition), similar to what is found whencompeting against others (other-competition). In one laboratory and … and suggest that these factorscan account for the different findings. Finally, we document that self-competition does … noworse than other-competition in terms of performance boosting. …