context scale economies dominated the effects of choice and competition. This points to an often ignored trade-off between … scale and competition. …

Terrorism is designed to draw attention to particular issues and causes. Yet, the incidence of credit … messages. This article offers an explanation of the variation in credit-taking that emphasizes how the competitive context in … credit-taking fluctuates as a function of the number of active terrorist groups in a given theater of operations. This …

seller competition and limited consumer information, and it responds to costs and prices in a manner consistent with a model …

initiated in the post crises period. The results indicate that competition in the banking sector is most accurately … characterized by the theoretical model of monopolistic competition for the period under consideration. There is no evidence that the …

Working definitions of industrial and competition policy are provided. Based on definition variants of relations of two …

switch to foreign currency loans, as they do not bear the full cost of the corresponding credit risk. Thus information … asymmetry between banks and firms can be a potential driver of "dollarization" in credit markets. …

effect of regulation and competition on cable rates. Our calculations indicate that while regulation lowered rates for small … system operators, it raised them for medium and large systems. Meanwhile, competition consistently decreased rates from 5 ….6 to 8.8 percent, with even larger declines during periods of regulation. Our results suggest that competition is more …