multiple technology regimes and group membership probabilities. The latter are conditioned on six bank traits of German banks … specific cost parameters to measure competition with Lerner indices. Large, national universal banks and the smallest, most … specialized banks exhibit the lowest level of competition. In turn, medium sized universal banks are both efficient and exhibit …

In diesem Papier geben wir einen Überblick über den Wettbewerb und die Effizienz im deutschen Bankensektor. Wir nehmen … scheinen Wettbewerb und Effizienz positiv miteinander verbunden. Des weiteren bestanden deutliche Unterschiede zwischen großen … möglichen Folgen für Wettbewerb und Effizienz. …

the country. Our results suggest that the economic structure and productivity of southern Mexico is considerably different …

This paper analyses the institutional framework for pharmacies in Germany and competition in that sector, which is … characterized by significant competition deficits. Based on our diagnosis and findings the advantages and disadvantages of two …

Entwicklung zu forcieren. Eine Möglichkeit besteht darin, einen Wettbewerb um die beste Nachhaltigkeitsperformance in der … derRisikobewertung - noch deutliche Optimierungspotenziale bei der Integration vonNachhaltigkeitsstrategien in die Bank- und … Nachhaltigkeitsleistung von Finanzdienstleistern abzubilden, um so einen Wettbewerb um den Sustainability-Leader der Branche zu initiieren …

competition are quite limited. We propose and implement a frontierbased method to assess relative competition in bank …, it is important to maintain competition among payment service providers but data available to gauge the degree of …

Traditionally, financial systems have been bank-based or market-based. The efficiency properties of these systems are …, and law, finance and politics. Both systems have advantages and disadvantages. With regard to stability, both bank …

This paper investigates to which extent tough competition impacts on the macroeconomic performance of countries. The … relation between competition and innovation has been investigated intensely in industrial economics. It started with Schumpeter … highest for medium-range competition, but lower for very tough competition as well as for a very lax competitive regime …