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Article about alternative interpretations of the concept of "competition" as the adaptive behavior of market participants. The author substantiates the thesis of the identity of market adaptation and market competition rather than rivalry.
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The motivations of the Arab Spring and hitherto unanswered questions about some of its dynamics inspired this paper, which focuses on how democracy, polity and autocracy affect financial development dynamics of depth, efficiency, activity and size in Africa; contingent on religious-domination,...
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practices of the banking and finance sector, which widely range from non-performing loans, to China’s money market and interbank … lending business. These problems also directly associate with the liberalization of the banking and finance sector of the … financial institutions, by focusing on the policy implications of the history of banking and finance in China, and what this …
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This paper introduces crowdfunding as a concept and model for the evolution of investment banking. Crowdfunding, an … application of crowdsourcing, is defined as one party’s attempt to finance a project by offering three types of investment …
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The purpose of this exploratory and to some extent descriptive analysis is to highlight the Islamic banking & finance … collective efforts, Islamic banking is now recognized by IMF,World Bank and Basel Committee. While, 27 Muslim countries including … theory, and to explain the practical disparity all over the Muslim Umma along with commonalities of Islamic banking in them …
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This paper studies models where the optimal response functions under consideration are non-increasing in endogenous variables, and weakly increasing in exogenous parameters. Such models include games with strategic substitutes, and include cases where additionally, some variables may be...
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banking). The research studied all the 40 bank branches of the financial institution Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD) located in …Considering the deep transformations that the banking sector has been experiencing in recent years at a competitive … level, this research focuses on identifying the determinants of competitiveness and the variables affecting the same …
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The integration process in the European banking sector considerably differs with regard to product types. Deep …
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The capital structure of firms that face restrictions on liquidity (i.e. that cannot hedge continuously) is affected by the agency costs and moral-hazard implicit in the contracts they establish with stockholders and customers. It is demonstrated in this paper that then an optimal level of...
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The article examines a differentiated-products duopoly model where the firms make entry decisions to two markets and then choose prices. The effects of product differentiation and entry costs are analyzed in two games: with and without price discrimination between the markets. Allowing price...
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