This dissertation consists of three papers which are aimed at extending consumer search theory by relaxing some of the informational assumptions and by inquiring into the incentives of firms to share information. The first paper analyses firm's incentives to share information in search markets....

Germany Inc. was an idiosyncratic form of industrial organization that put financial institutions at the center. This paper argues that the consumption of private benefits in related party transactions by these key agents can be understood as a compensation for their coordinating and monitoring...

This book provides an evaluation of the industrial organization of banking with a focus on the interrelationship among bank behavior, market structure, and regulation. It addresses a wide range of public policy topics, including bank competition and risk, international banking, antitrust issues,...