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Concentration, Market Power and Dynamism in the Euro Area

Cavalleri, Maria Chiara - 2019

We examine the degree of market power in the big four countries of the euro area using macro and firm micro data. We focus on three main indicators of market power in and across countries: namely, the concentration ratios, the markup and the degree of economic dynamism. For the macro database we...

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Concentration, Market Power and Dynamism in the Euro Area

Cavalleri, Maria Chiara; Eliet, Alice; McAdam, Peter; … - 2022

We examine the degree of market power in the big four countries of the euro area using macro and firm-micro data. We focus on three main indicators of market power in and across countries: namely, the concentration ratios, the markup and the degree of economic dynamism. For the macro database we...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322230

A new approach to measuring competition in the loan markets of the euro area

van Leuvensteijn, Michiel; Bikker, Jacob A.; van … - 2007

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 …

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A New Approach to Measuring Competition in the Loan Markets of the Euro Area

Leuvensteijn, Michiel van; Bikker, Jacob A.; Rixtel, … - 2021

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 …

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Micro-Based Evidence of EU Competitiveness : The CompNet Database

Lopez-Garcia, Paloma - 2014

Drawing from confidential firm-level balance sheets in 11 European countries, the paper presents a novel sectoral database of comparable productivity indicators built by members of the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet) using a newly developed research infrastructure. Beyond aggregate...

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Market power, innovative activity and exchange rate pass-through in the euro area

Brissimis, Sophocles N.; Kosma, Theodora - 2005

This paper examines exchange rate pass-through in the euro area by accounting for the impact of exchange rate changes on exporting firms’ market power, cost structure and competitiveness. An international oligopoly model where exporting firms simultaneously decide on their pricing and...

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Market Power and Fiscal Policy in OECD Countries

Afonso, António - 2010

We compute average mark-ups as a measure of market power throughout time and study their interaction with fiscal policy and macroeconomic variables in a VAR framework. From impulse-response functions the results, with annual data for a set of 14 OECD countries covering the period 1970-2007, show...

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Competition in the Portuguese Economy : Estimated Price-Cost Margins under Imperfect Labour Markets

Amador, João - 2014

This article estimates price-cost margins for the Portuguese markets in a context of imperfect competition in the … strongly reject the hypothesis of perfect competition in both labour and product markets. Estimated price-cost margins are very …

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Euro Area Banks’ Market Power, Lending Channel and Stability : The Effects of Negative Policy Rates

Altunbaş, Yener; Avignone, Giuseppe; Kok Sørensen, … - 2023

This paper investigates to what extent the introduction of negative monetary policy rates altered competitive behaviour in the euro area banking sector. Specifically, it analyses the effect that negative policy rates had on euro area banks’ market power in comparison to banks that have not...

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Concentration, market power and dynamism in the euro area

Cavalleri, Maria Chiara; Eliet, Alice; McAdam, Peter; … - 2019

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