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 …

Policy makers in Europe have been concerned that lack of product market competition have led productivity to lag behind … the US. Theoretical models are ambiguous about the direction of the effect that product market competition should have on … productivity. On the one hand increasing competition lowers firm's profits and thus reduces incentives to exert effort (the …

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 …

competition arising from trade reforms lead to increases in innovation? This paper attempts to examine the link between trade … Licandro (2009, 2010) as guide, a two-stage approach is tested where trade and innovation are linked via competition. A … reduction in tariffs leads to an increase in competition as price cost margins fall due to the increase in the number of players …

in resolving or channeling the major societal questions. More European competition between universities in education and …

Wissensverarbeitung, das dem Wettbewerb wichtige gesellschaftspolitische Funktionen zuschreibt. In seinen späteren Schriften hat er … herausgearbeitet, wie wichtig der Wettbewerb ist, um moralische Widerstände gegen nötige Anpassungen an veränderte … knowledge, which ascribe important societal functions to competition. In his later works, he has elaborated his view that …