potentially leads to a large loss. The current paper studies how such risk-taking behavior depends on the level of competition … that the agents face. We study a tournament model and we find that more intense competition, measured by the number of …

potentially leads to a large loss. The current paper studies how such risk-taking behavior depends on the level of competition … that the agents face. We study a tournament model and we find that more intense competition, measured by the number of …

in safe lending, while others engage in risk shifting and (ii) a competition to risk shift emerges whereby loans to …

We develop models of markets with procrastinating consumers where competition operates - or is supposed to operate … price competition fails at this stage as well. In fact, a competition paradox results: an increase in the number of firms or … returning ex-post profits to consumers, and in some cases even exacerbate the failure of price competition. Consumer …