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We study the unintended consequences of consumer financial regulations, focusing on the CARD Act, which restricts consumer credit card issuers' ability to raise interest rates. We estimate the competitive responsiveness-the degree to which a credit card issuer changes offered interest rates in...
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Individuals who compete in a contest-like situation (for example, in sports, in promotion tournaments, or in an appointment contest) may have an incentive to illegally utilize resources in order to improve their relative positions. We analyze such doping within a tournament game between two...
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. -- cheating ; contest ; doping ; fraud in research ; tournament …
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Contests are meant to attract the best performers and incentivize high effort, however, they may also attract cheaters who try to win via illicit means which crowds out the best performers. We use a laboratory experiment to explore the role of self-selection in contests with a possibility of...
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A model of imperfectly competitive banks is examined under asymmetric information about borrower quality. Greater bank … empirical results on the relationship between bank competition and financial stability. The model can be used to define a …
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microeconomic model of bank competition that contemplates differences in the behavior of public and private banks and the …
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This paper investigates the relationship between bank competition and credit procyclicality for 17 OECD countries on … the 1986-2009 period. We account for heterogeneity among countries in terms of bank competition through the use of a … whether credit procyclicality is more important when the degree of bank competition is high. Our findings show that while …
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This paper shows that the supply side of credit is a major factor for the phenomenonof hampered interest rate pass-through in monopolistic banking markets. Our data,covering all 1,555 small and medium sized banks in Germany, provides a clear wayto partial out demand shocks; we are thus able to...
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regulation and Europeanisation of supervision, however, -so far neglecting differences in risk profiles and bank sizes …-Anwendungen vorhandene Bank- und Finanzdienstleistungen ergänzen, aber nicht ersetzen werden. Wir warnen jedoch vor bestehenden …
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conduct investigations in the search of qualified loan borrowers. The model assumes that the domestic bank has a cost … advantage in evaluating a borrower’s credit quality compared to the competing foreign bank. Despite the cost heterogeneity, an … equilibrium exists in which two such banks coexist in the market. Specifically, the information cost advantaged bank orchestrates …
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