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 …

Hundreds of millions of microenterprises in emerging economies face increased competition from the entry and expansion …, neighborhood shops, confront competition from convenience chains (e.g., 7- Eleven) in Mexico. To address the endogeneity in time …

Spain and some of the Scandinavian countries have recently given to the consumers the possibility to face the spot prices … choose between fixed tariffs and the wholesale prices. The model is calibrated on a real market case - Spain - where since …

framework in which fractional reserve banks emerge in equilibrium, where bank assets are funded with liabilities made demandable … in government money, where the terms of bank deposit contracts are affected by the liquidity insurance available in … financial markets, where banks are subject to runs, and where a central bank has a meaningful role to play, both in terms of …