This paper develops a dynamic model of retail competition and uses it to study the impact of the expansion of a new national competitor on the structure of urban markets. In order to accommodate substantial heterogeneity (both observed and unobserved) across agents and markets, the paper first...

Using a sample of Chinese commercial banks over the period 2003-2013, this paper tests the interrelationships between risk, competition and efficiency in the Chinese banking industry under a three-stage least square estimator. The paper is the first study comprehensively examining different...