This paper investigates consumer demand, competition and welfare in the Turkish deposit and credit markets in 2002-2009 period by using banks'market shares in these markets. A discrete choice structural demand model developed by Berry (1994) is employed in the estimations. As market shares...

Attempts to explain high and sticky credit card rates have given rise to a vast literature on credit card markets. This paper endeavors to explain the rates in the Turkish market using measures of non-price competition. In this market, issuers compete monopolistically by differentiating their...

Credit card rates have been shown to be very high and non-responsive to the changes in the costs of funds. The failure of price competition led to a shift of interests from price to non-price competition in these markets. Credit card issuers create switching costs for their customers by...

The failure of competition and the consequent high and sticky interest rates in credit card markets have been the subject of a considerable amount of debate and research lately. This paper presents the first regression testing for the existence of price competition in a credit card market to be...

The attempts to explain the high and sticky credit card rates have given rise to a vast literature on credit card markets. This paper endeavors to explain the rates in the Turkish market using measures of non-price competition. In this market, issuers compete monopolistically by differentiating...

This paper attempts to delineate the evolution of the Turkish banking sector in the post-crisis era after 2001. The paper summarizes the events in the Turkish banking sector until the 2001 crisis. After that, a section focuses on the major regulatory changes. A detailed account of the...

The Turkish credit card market has recently undergone two important formal regulations: the interchange fee regulation in 2005 and the interest rate regulation in 2006. Banks started to charge annual fees to cardholders after the interest rate regulation, before which credit card ownership was...

The Turkish credit card market has recently undergone two important formal regulations: the interchange fee regulation in 2005 and the interest rate regulation in 2006. Banks started to charge annual fees to cardholders after the interest rate regulation, before which credit card ownership was...