Traditionally, financial systems have been bank-based or market-based. The efficiency properties of these systems are …, and law, finance and politics. Both systems have advantages and disadvantages. With regard to stability, both bank …

estimated New Keynesian model with a bank. A key dimension of policy in the crisis was massive government support for banks … bank asset losses, of government support for banks, and other fiscal stimulus measures, in the EA. Our results suggest that …

We estimate the macroeconomic benefits and international spillovers of an increase in competition using a general …-equilibrium simulation model with nominal rigidities and monopolistic competition in product and labor markets. We draw three conclusions … after calibrating the model to the euro area against the rest of the industrial world. First, greater competition produces …

find that domestic competition does not seem to explain an excess or shortage of price changes at the sectoral level …

financial system in which there is intense competition among banks for private households' funds. Following earlier work by … contracts is restrained by households' financial market access. However, we also assume spatial monopolistic competition among … monopoly rents also entails a positive effect; however, this beneficial effect is only relevant if competition among banks does …

A model of loan rate competition with liquidity provision by banks is used to study bank mergers. Both loan rate … competition and liquidity needs are seen to be "localised" phenomena. This allows for tracing down the effects of particular types … of bank mergers. As such, we contrast the effects of "revenue base enhancing" mergers with the effects of mergers "for …

and economic activity have declined in recent years. These results have implications for investors, bank regulators, and …