Antitrust advocates believe that horizontal consolidation in hospital markets can reduce competition and increase …, and managed care penetration. The results show: a shift away from non-price competition toward price competition in health …

smaller bank size. Overall, we find that concentrated market structures and lack of competition in LICs banking systems and … provide strong evidence that policies aimed at fostering banking competition and strengthening institutional frameworks can …

Traditional bank competition policy seeks to balance efficiency with incentives to take risk. The main tools are rules … seek to affect the degree of competition by focusing on market structure (i.e. concentration) may have limited effect. We … argue that bank competition policy should be reoriented to deal with the too-big-to-fail (TBTF) problem. It should also …

This article measures promotional competition between two major supermarket chains in the United States. The approach … exceed the price cuts of their rivals when responding to promotions. Oligopolistic competition plays a significant role in …

This paper assesses the degree of bank competition and discusses efficiency with regard to banks' financial …

The paper assesses the degree of banking competition and efficiency in Italy?over time as well as compared to that in … other countries, such as France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper finds competition in …. The degree of competition falls within the range of estimates for a set of comparator countries. Greater contestability …