Overview of themes
Four futures of finance and the inherent challenges facing policymakers in fighting systemic risk. →
Stronger competition on the loan market depresses the interest rate. →
This paper is the first that applies a recently introduced measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. →
The lack of available prices in the Dutch life insurance industry makes competition an elusive concept that defies direct observation. →
We analyse empirically price-setting in the Dutch mortgage market, using information on about 124,000 Dutch households and 54 mortgage lenders over the years 1996-2001. →