This paper studies the links between competition in the lending market and spreads of bank loans in Brazil. Evidence … interest rates as the bank-firm relationship duration increases. Both results are stronger for micro and small firms than for …

given by testing a monopolistic competition model of bank branching behaviour on individual bank data at county level …This paper analyses the relation between competition and concentration in the banking sector. The empirical answer is … among incumbent banks on competition and discuss when, depending on the pre-merger structure of the market and geographic …

competition online - an area that up to then seemed to have worked being left to the market. Though the extension of public …-media effects. -- media economics ; two-sided markets ; competition ; public service broadcasting ; public service media …

We argue that, in a simple setting, the relation between the intensity of competition and cost-reducing investment is U … is minimal for intermediate levels of competition, which is inversely parameterized by the extent of product … ; intensity of competition ; experiment …