A standard macroeconomic model based on monopolistic competition (Dixit-Stiglitz) does not account for the strategic … behaviors of oligopolistic firms. In this study, we construct a tractable Hotelling duopoly model with price stickiness to … price stickiness. (2) The real effect of monetary policy under duopolistic competition is larger than that in a Dixit …

This paper studies bank competition with borrower adverse selection. In the model, expected non-performing loan costs … are high when credit is granted in booms, when risk free rates are low, or when competition is strong. I prove that full … competition is suboptimal due to this last effect; that more competition improves the transmission of monetary policy, and that …