This paper introduces a framework to facilitate an interdisciplinary analysis of 'competition'. While such an … interdisciplinary analysis can be justified by referencing the various fields of social and economic life in which 'competition' is … sufficient common elements across different concepts of competition that justify an interdisciplinary approach to study …

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 …

competition among counties. The present paper highlights the situation in which the citizens of two countries have the opportunity …

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 …

-statistics suggest that banks in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE operate under perfect competition; banks in Bahrain and Qatar operate … under conditions of monopolistic competition; and we are unable to reject monopolistic competition for the banking market in …

This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This … approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … competition can consider the entire banking market only. A caveat of the Boone-indicator may be that it assumes that banks …