We assess the influence of competition and capital regulation on the stability of the banking system. We particularly … ask two questions: i) how does capital regulation affect (endogenous) entry; and ii) how do (exogenous) changes in the … competitive environment affect bank monitoring choices and the effectiveness of capital regulation? Our approach deviates from the …

infrastructure investments beyond the level achieved by access regulation and they seem to facilitate tacit price collusion. On the …

In this paper, we assess the impact of competition and regulation on prices of mobile services in France. We estimate …-adjusted prices to a set of competition and regulation variables and find that the launch of 4G networks by mobile operators was the … introduced to pre-empt the entry of low cost competitor declined at the time of entry. Moreover, we find that regulation, which …

We empirically assess the impact of the EU roaming regulation on mobile operators' average revenues per user (ARPU) and …-level data we find that the regulation decreased mobile operator's revenues per user, while it had no impact on tariffs during … the latest phase of the regulation. …

In many situations governments have sector-specific tax and regulation policies at their disposal to influence the …

In many situations governments have sector-specific tax and regulation policies at their disposal to influence the …

tighten environmental standards. Production costs under the stricter environmental regulation are private information to the … actually benefit from tighter regulation. In these circumstances, such firms may overcomply in order to signal to the … government that compliance costs are low, thus inducing the government to enforce stricter regulation. …