multiple technology regimes and group membership probabilities. The latter are conditioned on six bank traits of German banks … specific cost parameters to measure competition with Lerner indices. Large, national universal banks and the smallest, most … specialized banks exhibit the lowest level of competition. In turn, medium sized universal banks are both efficient and exhibit …

In diesem Papier geben wir einen Überblick über den Wettbewerb und die Effizienz im deutschen Bankensektor. Wir nehmen … scheinen Wettbewerb und Effizienz positiv miteinander verbunden. Des weiteren bestanden deutliche Unterschiede zwischen großen … möglichen Folgen für Wettbewerb und Effizienz. …

This paper analyses the institutional framework for pharmacies in Germany and competition in that sector, which is … characterized by significant competition deficits. Based on our diagnosis and findings the advantages and disadvantages of two …

competition are quite limited. We propose and implement a frontierbased method to assess relative competition in bank …, it is important to maintain competition among payment service providers but data available to gauge the degree of …

This paper investigates to which extent tough competition impacts on the macroeconomic performance of countries. The … relation between competition and innovation has been investigated intensely in industrial economics. It started with Schumpeter … highest for medium-range competition, but lower for very tough competition as well as for a very lax competitive regime …

This paper studies the effect of product market competition on the compensation packages that firms offer to their … executives and in particular its impact on the sensitivity of pay to performance. To measure the effect of competition we use two … financial sectors as quasi-natural experiments. We provide difference in differences estimates of the effect of competition on …

approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … ignores differences in bank product quality and design, as well as the attractiveness of innovations. We measure competition …This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This …

shields the private commercial bank from aggressive competition by these banks. … such cooperative practices. There are two adjacent markets with one savings or cooperative bank being focused on each one … and one private commercial bank serving both. We find that abolishing regional demarcation indeed increases total loan …

shields the private commercial bank from aggressive competition by these banks. … such cooperative practices. There are two adjacent markets with one savings or cooperative bank being focused on each one … and one private commercial bank serving both. We find that abolishing regional demarcation indeed increases total loan …