This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This … approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … competition can consider the entire banking market only. A caveat of the Boone-indicator may be that it assumes that banks …

the international comparisons, the price formation of the food chain, degree of concentration, competition, and the …, competition works in Finland just as well in agriculture, the foodstuffs industry and the wholesale and retail trade as it does in … from the standpoint of competition and consumer choice; the position of small producers can best be improved by fostering …

This paper shows that bank competition has an intrinsically ambiguous effect on capital accumulation and economic … evidence gathered from recent empirical studies of how bank competition affects the real economy. Our results were obtained by … prospective entrepreneur is of low credit quality and where screening would therefore be especially beneficial, less competition …

the international comparisons, the price formation of the food chain, degree of concentration, competition, and the …, competition works in Finland just as well in agriculture, the foodstuffs industry and the wholesale and retail trade as it does in … the food. -- Foodstuff prices ; food chain ; agriculture ; foodstuff industry ; retail and wholesale trade ; competition …

endogeneity of collusion. -- Competition ; collusion ; productivity …

This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed … Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with competition. In particular, a one standard deviation increase in … competition in an economic sector decreases the probability that a fixed-term worker gets an open-ended contract within that …

This paper investigates whether the valuation effect of corporate governance depends on the degree of competition in … product market competition and corporate governance. Consistent with the hypothesis that product market competition acts as a … are robust to a large number of robustness checks including the use of alternative measures of competition and governance …