This paper analyzes tax/subsidy competition and transfer pricing regulation between governments involved in trade …

How do banks react to increased competition?Recent banking theory offers conflicting predictions about the impact of … competition on bank orientation - i.e., the choice of relationship based versus transactional banking.We empirically investigate … the impact of interbank competition on bank branch orientation.We employ a unique data set containing detailed information …

Competition has been modelled in the literature in a number of ways.What do these different parametrizations of … competition have in common?For instance, it turns out that it is not always the case that a rise in competition reduces price cost … margins, industry wide profits or concentration.All parametrizations of competition, considered here, have two features in …

This paper introduces optimal competition: the best form of competition in an industry that a competition authority can … achieve under the information constraint that it cannot observe firms' effciency levels.We show that the optimal competition … outcome in an industry becomes more competitive as more money is spent in the industry, as the competition authority puts less …

. As a practical example, the professional competition between fund managers is considered. To explore how different … settings of competition parameters, the exclusion rate and the exclusion interval, affect individual investment behavior, an …

on the idea that the size distribution is the result of the competition between banks for permanent deposit money. The …

This paper focuses on network sharing on mobile networks and examines the impact on profitability and competition … and in the longer run move focus from infrastructure based to service based competition. Although operators have been able … business. Despite an extensive usage of network sharing - where competitors are collaborating - competition on the retail …

farmers' inertia of cultivating SRC. Nevertheless, those studies do not take into account market competition between farmers … an agent-based model which is able to consider market competition and can picture the whole value chain. In order to …