This study demonstrates that the common view, whereby an increase in competition leads banks to increased risk taking, fails to hold in an environment where consumers can choose in which bank to make a deposit based on their knowledge of the riskiness incorporated in the banks' outstanding loan...

For many years IO economists devoted attention to the size distributions' of firms in a given industry. Most studies showed that the size distribution of firms in oligopolistic markets is highly skewed. There are many small firms and a few large firms. There is also a consensus that relative...

This study evaluates the effects of institutional investors' common ownership of firms competing in the same market. Overall, common ownership has two opposing effects: (a) it serves as a device for weakening market competition, and (b) it induces diversification, thereby reducing portfolio...

We analyze how an increase in the degree of common ownership of firms in the same market affects consumption and investment. Such an increase is shown to reduce real investment and therefore intertemporal consumption. Overall, institutional investors' common ownership of firms competing in the...

We analyze competition for experienced workers among wage-setting firms. The firms can design poaching offers with higher wages to workers who switch from rivals relative to wages paid to their own existing employees. We evaluate the profit and welfare effects of anti-poaching agreements that...

The paper constructs an overlapping generations model to evaluate how different bank rescue plans affect banks' risk-taking incentives. For a non-competitive banking industry, we find bailout with tax imposed on the old generation or equity bail-in to be efficient policies in the sense that they...

Deposit insurance designs in many countries place a limit on the coverage of deposits in each bank. However, no limits are placed on the number of accounts held with different banks. Therefore, under limited deposit insurance, some consumers open accounts with different banks to achieve higher...

This study demonstrates a substantial inefficiency in the banking industry resulting from allowing banks to maintain less than a one-hundred percent reserve requirement, thereby exposing depositors to unwanted risks such as investment risks as well as bank runs and bank crises (e.g., the crisis...

Deposit insurance designs in many countries place a limit on the coverage of deposits in each bank. However, no limits are placed on the number of accounts held with different banks. Therefore, under limited deposit insurance, some consumers open accounts with different banks to achieve higher...