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This paper empirically examines the effects of discriminatory fees on ATM investment and welfare, and considers the … role of coordination in ATM investment between banks. Our main findings are that foreign fees tend to reduce ATM … availability and (consumer) welfare, whereas surcharges positively affect ATM availability and the different welfare components …
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This paper empirically examines the effects of discriminatory fees on ATM investment and welfare, and considers the … role of coordination in ATM investment between banks. Our main findings are that foreign fees tend to reduce ATM … availability and (consumer) welfare, whereas surcharges positively affect ATM availability and the different welfare components …
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often also that consumers make the proper usage decisions. This paper studies investment and usage in a shared ATM network … with partial incompatibility. Furthermore, we find that consumer usage of the available ATM network is too low because of …. Because all banks coordinate their ATM investment decisions, there is no strategic but only a pure cost-saving incentive to …
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This paper studies the effect of bank relationships on underwriter choice in the U.S. corporate-bond underwriting market following the 1989 commercial-bank entry. I find that bank relationships have positive and significant effects on a firm's underwriter choice, over and above their effects on...
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This paper examines the effects of bank relationships on underwriter choice in the Japanese corporate-bond market following the 1993 deregulation. Bank relationships have significant positive effects on a firm's underwriter choice. Relationship firms receive a small but significant fee discount...
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In the European Union, energy markets are increasingly being liberalized. A case in point is the European natural gas industry. The general expectation is that more competition will lead to lower prices and higher volumes, and hence higher welfare. This paper indicates that this might not happen...
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Although entry regulation is ubiquitous across countries, comprehensive evaluations on the broad impacts of such regulations on firm dynamics and productivity are lacking. We address the key identification challenge of policy endogeneity by leveraging the staggered implementation of a pilot...
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Something old and important is lost sight of in a case like Ohio v. American Express, the Supreme Court's recent adoption of "platform" or "two-sided market" theory in American antitrust, and in theoretical efforts like the one on which it is based. A rarely discussed idea built in to American...
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Exploiting differential interstate branching deregulation across contiguous counties of adjacent states, we investigate the effect of entry threat on incumbent banks' loan loss provisions. Incumbents exposed to entry threat have offsetting incentives; lower provisions make their loan...
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