tortious interference; unfair-competition law; and conversion, trade-secret appropriation, and related theories of theft. The …

A model of loan rate competition with liquidity provision by banks is used to study bank mergers. Both loan rate … competition and liquidity needs are seen to be "localised" phenomena. This allows for tracing down the effects of particular types …

application programming interface (API) standards in banking, and explores the competition problems that they address. It argues … that by fundamentally changing the way that consumers buy and use banking services this represents the development of a … more entrepreneurial approach to remedying malfunctioning markets. It also underlines the importance of competition …

I investigate whether bank bailouts since the outbreak of the financial crisis affected competition in the European … positive light on European competition policy as banks do not appear to have capitalized on rescue money in terms of market … power. Protecting competition in European banking markets remains a topical policy issue in light of rising levels of market …

competition and stability in banking. There are two basic channels through which competition may increase instability: by … incentives to take risk and raise failure probabilities. The competition-stability trade-off is characterized and the … implications of the analysis for regulation and competition policy are derived. It is found that optimal regulation may depend on …