supervisory data set, this paper investigates competition and efficiency in the Dutch life insurance market by estimating unused … economies decrease but substantial differences between small and large insurers remain. A direct measure of competition confirms … competition from banks, the so-called investment policy crisis or the credit crisis, apart from lower returns in 2008 …

addition, this idea is largely contradicted by the short period during which the sector achieved some level of competition … Telecommunications Act and of much of the competition it helped facilitate …

This paper concerns the operation of competition in the presence of a high rate of innovation and increasing returns …. Given free competition there is likely to exist, in this case, a tendency towards what may be called "dynamic equilibrium … this investment yields only a normal return. Thus, competition, increasing returns and innovation may co-exist …

generate competition among rivals proximate to a standard (e.g. ranked #3 vs. 4, near the top); rivals far from a standard (e … comparison, may account for those classical competition findings in the literature. Study 5 then reveals how scale ranking …