Following the recent and on-going tightenings of capital requirements in response to the financial crisis many experts have predicted a decline in the importance of the banking sector as banks struggle to compete with other providers of financial intermediation. The purpose of our research is to...

This paper addresses the desirability of competition in banking industry. In a model where banks compete on both deposit and loan markets and where banks can use monitoring technology to control entrepreneurs' behavior, we investigate three questions: what are the effects of competition on...

This paper focuses on the empirics and strategies of anti-dumping investigations by national authorities. It will examine the United States of America (US), India, China, and Canada and their increasing reliance on this controversial policy instrument, as governments are faced with new global...

Kenya is about to embark on an important reform to expand banking to millions of poor households by enabling third-party retail agents as a low-cost distribution alternative to branches. However, this initiative risks being undermined by the mobile network operator (MNO) Safaricom, which...

A review of production function research with telecommunications data shows strong scale economies, which is supported by more recent advances in production function econometrics. Newer economics of reputation and competition shows that both moral hazard and adverse selection problems are...

We offer a stress test framework in which interaction between regulated banks occurs through pecuniary externalities when they delever. Since banks are constrained to maintain their capital ratio higher than a threshold, the deleveraging problem yields a generalized game in which the solvency...

The degree of the banking sector concentration is a structural variable and refers to the number of banks in the system and the degree of their market power. The importance of measuring concentration in the banking sector stems from the causal relationship between the market structure and the...

We study the effects of PPP loans on business competition. We start by introducing temporary cash subsidies into a model of monopolistic competition with differentiated products and heterogeneous production costs. We test the predictions of our model in a sample of U.S. airport hotels for which...

Creative Destruction is the name Joseph Schumpeter gave to a significant change in technology which dislodges old technological monopolies into new technology and which leads to increasing economic growth and higher standards of living. This paper proposes that the current New Economy, or the...

How does a central bank digital currency (CBDC) affect bank deposit market competition? This paper shows that cash-like retail e-CNY enhanced the deposit market competition by reshaping the perceived riskiness differential between large and small banks. I document the “convergence” of large...