We investigate the trade-off between financial stability and competition policy by focusing on the merger of ABN AMRO … and Fortis Bank NL in the Dutch retail banking market. The financial crisis delayed the completion of the merger giving … products using a random-coefficients logit model. On the supply side we assume Bertrand Nash competition in a multiproduct …

literature suggest a negative effect of (price) competition on investments in mobile networks. To the best of our knowledge this … auctions may alter competition in the mobile market. …

costs to the products being advertised, - Elimination (or non-emergence) of competition in markets to the products being …

runs, and face a threat of entry. Higher competition increases deposit rates and bank fragility, resulting in an … intermediate socially optimal level of bank competition. We provide a novel theory of bank opacity. The cost of opacity is more … is to deter entry of competitors, which increases bank charter value. Banks can be excessively opaque, motivating …

Does co-investment enhance fiber to the home (FTTH) coverage, adoption and competition? We combine several French … insert the correction term derived from the entry model in the FTTH coverage (adoption, competition) regression to correct … FTTH adoption during the 2015-2018 study period and also a more intense competition as shown through the decrease in Orange …