This study investigates the role of sectoral market structure in the inflationary dynamics of the domestic producer prices (D-PPI) in Türkiye. We start by reporting the fact that industries with intense competition had lower producer price inflation compared to industries with low-competition...

The constitutional conception of market integration within the European Union entails creating a level playing field for competition in the consolidated banking sector. The financial crisis of 2008 brought with it the need to proceed with care as it rolled back the gains of improving competitive...

The functioning of the banking sector is key for economic growth. In this paper, we first gather banks' balance sheet monthly regulatory information in a consistent manner for seven Latin American countries. Second, we estimate lending markups and deposits markdowns in each country over time....

In Konzentrationsanalysen wird neben der Ermittlung eines globalen Konzentrationsmaßes für einen relevanten Markt mit Hilfe von Dominanzmaßen ein oligopolistischer Kern abgegrenzt. Diese Dominanzmaße stehen im Mittelpunkt dieser Arbeit. Es wird untersucht, welche Anforderungen an diese Maße...

Purpose - This paper investigates the role of market structure and institutional quality in determining bank capital ratios in developing economies. Design/methodology/approach - The generalised methods of moment technique is used to control for auto-correlation and endogeneity in a sample of 79...

The unexpected pandemic eruption in March 2020, the European efforts to diminish the gas house emissions, prolonged drought, higher inflation and the war in Ukraine clearly have had a strong impact on the electricity price. In this paper, we analyze the electricity prices on the Romanian...

This paper considers a financing problem for an innovative firm that is launching a web-based platform. The entrepreneur, on one hand, faces a large degree of demand uncertainty on his product and on the other hand has to deal with incentive problems of professional blockchain participants who...

We build a model of debt for firms with investment projects, for which flexibility and free cash flow problems are important issues. We focus on the factors that lead the firm to select the zero-debt policy. Our model provides an explanation of the so-called "zero-leverage puzzle". It also helps...