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Comment on Niklaus Blattner: “Competitiveness in Banking: Selected Recent Contributions and Research Priorities”

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In his survey of recent contributions to the analysis of competitiveness in banking, Niklaus Blattner observes that (i) ‘hardly a topic in recent years has attracted more public attention in economics than that of competitiveness’, and (ii) ‘the ubiquity of the term does not match the clarity of the concept’. In the following comment, I will start from this observation and expand a bit on the semantics of the word ‘competitiveness’.

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  1. Martin Hellwig
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  1. Forschungsstelle für Arbeitsmarktund Industrieökonomik (FAI), Leonhardsgraben 3, CH-4051, Basel, Switzerland

    Niklaus Blattner

  2. International Centre for Monetary and Banking Studies (ICMB), Avenue de la Paix 11A, CH-1211, Geneva, Switzerland

    Hans Genberg

  3. Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales (IUHEI), Rue de Lausanne 132, CH-1211, Geneva, Switzerland

    Alexander Swoboda

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Hellwig, M. (1992). Comment on Niklaus Blattner: “Competitiveness in Banking: Selected Recent Contributions and Research Priorities”. In: Blattner, N., Genberg, H., Swoboda, A. (eds) Competitiveness in Banking. Studies in Contemporary Economics. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48846-7_3

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