4 research idea notes tagged “competition”. Read them as Markdown, JSON or an Atom feed.
Bank competition appears on 68 recent papers, but only 19 bank-competition papers carry a fintech, digital or platform keyword. Fintech lenders and digital banks were supposed to erode banks' market power. Did loan and deposit margins actually fall where they entered, and for whom?
Papers in the last 30 days — bank competition: 6 · fintech: 11
Mergers and acquisitions appear on 228 recent papers, but only 31 of them carry a merger-control, competition-policy or enforcement keyword. Merger enforcement tightened in the US and Europe after 2021 and loosened again in places since. Did the threat of review stop deals, reshape them, or simply delay them?
Papers in the last 30 days — mergers and acquisitions: 10 · competition policy: 2
Market power, price setting and markups appear on 186 recent papers, but only 8 of them carry an inflation keyword. The claim that firms used the inflation surge to raise margins ("greedflation") shaped policy debates. Did markups rise, in which sectors, and did they fall back?
Papers in the last 30 days — markups: 4 · market power: 4
The Big 4 auditors appear on 32 recent papers in the finance and accounting journals, but only 9 of 38 papers on the audit market carry a concentration, competition or fee keyword. Audit fees have risen sharply, and regulators worry about four firms auditing almost every large company. Does concentration raise fees, lower quality or both?
Papers in the last 30 days — Big 4 auditors: 2
Scholar4AI. (2026). Research ideas tagged “competition”. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/tags/competition
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Research ideas tagged “competition”},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/tags/competition}},
urldate = {2026-10-26},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}