We study how deposit competition affects a bank’s decision to securitize mortgages. Exploiting the state-specific removal of deposit market caps across the US as a source of competition, we find a 7.1 percentage point increase in the probability that banks securitize mortgage loans. This...

Financiers in early-stage entrepreneurial finance are known for their "spray-and-pray" approach, where they fund multiple start-ups expecting profits on a few to compensate losses on a lot of failed ones. We develop a theoretical framework in which financiers compete to fund entrepreneurs in an...

This study investigated the extent of currency competition within the cryptocurrency market through the Hayek's concept of the denationalization of money, Hayek's original analysis primarily centered on competition revolving around the medium of the exchange function, This study posited that...