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Item Open Access Bertrand-edgeworth equilibrium in a cash-in-advance economy(Oxford University Press, 2003) Başçı, E.; Saglam, I.This paper is about price and wage competition in a dynamic general equilibrium model. We consider an equity financed economy where firms need money to finance their input costs. Part of the output is sold for money to be used in the next period as working capital and the remaining part is distributed to owners as real dividends. We first characterize the steady state competitive equilibrium path. Second, we study whether this competitive equilibrium can be supported as a pure strategy Nash equilibrium in price and wage setting games. We prove a positive result for price competition and a negative one for wage competition.Item Open Access Intermediation spread, bank supervision, and financial stability(World Scientific Publishing, 2010) Özyıldırım, SüheylaThis paper models the effect of bank competition and deposit insurance premiums on the spread between lending and deposit rates. In developing economies, low spreads do not always indicate bank efficiency; they may be the result of high risk taking. This paper shows that imposing upper and lower limits on banks' spreads and adjusting deposit insurance premiums when violation of these limits occurs leads to a more stable but relatively large intermediation costs. In developing economies, such an outcome would be considered more desirable because it insulates existing financial intermediaries and investors against macroeconomic disturbances.