period 1998-2005 and discusses the results from the perspective of corporate bank strategy. Methodologically the existing … concentration of the national financial sector have a considerable impact on a bank's financial performance. Both issues proved to …

(Smith 1962) and recent theoretical results (Dufwenberg et al. 2008) suggest that competition forces people to behave as if …

Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to … manufacturing sectors. we find that there is a positive and significant relation between the extent of competition and firms …

competition for principals or agents. While we do observe substantial and significant ratchet effects in the baseline (no … competition) case of our model, we find that ratchet behavior is nearly eliminated by labor-market competition; interestingly this …

(Smith 1962) and recent theoretical results (Dufwenberg et al. 2008) suggest that competition forces people to behave as if …

in the minimum tick size or in the degree of domestic competition for order flow explain the different spread levels. We …