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Competitiveness in the Southern Euro Area

Lissovolik, Bogdan - 2008

This collection of studies analyzes developments in nonprice external competitiveness of France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. While France, Italy, and Portugal have experienced substantial export market share losses, Greece and Spain performed relatively well. Export market share losses...

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Competitiveness and Productivity in the Baltics : Common Shocks, Different Implications

Armendariz, Saioa - 2025

This paper examines competitiveness and productivity in the Baltics. Focusing on recent developments, it asks why Russia's war in Ukraine led to a prolonged recession and strong decline in competitiveness in Estonia, while Latvia and Lithuania shielded their economies more effectively. The paper...

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Credit Booms and Lending Standards

Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni - 2008

This paper links the current sub-prime mortgage crisis to a decline in lending standards associated with the rapid expansion of this market. We show that lending standards declined more in areas that experienced larger credit booms and house price increases. We also find that the underlying...

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Competition in the Financial Sector

Claessens, Stijn - 2009

As in other sectors, competition in finance matters for allocative, productive and dynamic efficiency. Theory suggests …, however, that unfettered competition is not first best given the special features of finance. I review these analytics and … describe how to assess the degree of competition in markets for financial services. Existing research shows that the degree of …

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Financial Intermediation, Competition, and Risk

De Nicolò, Gianni - 2009

banks can extract market power rents. We show that more bank competition results in lower economy-wide risk, lower bank … capital ratios, more efficient production plans and Pareto-ranked real allocations. Perfect competition supports a second best …

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Competitiveness in Central-Europe

Allard, Céline - 2009

Since EU accession, trade flows have exhibited strong dynamics in Central-Eastern Europe (CEE). During the period leading to the current global turmoil, the region has also experienced continuous exchange rate appreciation and rapid FDI inflows, both likely to have affected these countries'...

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Bank Competition, Risk and Asset Allocations

Boyd, John H. - 2009

. The model predicts that as competition increases, both loans and assets increase; however, the effect on the loans …-to-assets ratio is ambiguous. Similarly, as competition increases, the probability of bank failure can either increase or decrease. We …

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Are More Competitive Banking Systems More Stable?.

Cihák, Martin - 2006

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. LITERATURE REVIEW -- A. Competition and Concentration -- B. Concentration … and Stability -- C. Competition and Stability -- D. Regulation, Supervision and Stability -- III. METHODOLOGY -- A …

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Measuring Competitiveness.

Neary, J. Peter - 2006

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. MEASURING THE COST OF LIVING -- III. TRUE REAL EFFECTIVE EXCHANGE RATES -- IV. AN APPLICATION: THE IRISH ECONOMY'S EXPOSURE TO STERLING -- V. CONCLUSION -- Appendix -- References.

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Bank Competition and Household Privacy in a Digital Payment Monopoly

Agur, Itai - 2023

Lenders can exploit households' payment data to infer their creditworthiness. When households value privacy, they then face a tradeoff between protecting such privacy and credit conditions. We study how the introduction of an informationally more intrusive digital payment vehicle affects...

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