The three main measures of competition (HHI, Lerner Index, and H-Statistic) are uncorrelated for U.S. banks. We … investigate why this occurs, propose a frontier measure of competition, and apply it to five major bank service lines using data … only available since 2008. Fee-based banking services comprise 35% of bank revenues so assessing competition by service …

, it is important to maintain competition among payment service providers but data available to gauge the degree of … competition are quite limited. We propose and implement a frontierbased method to assess relative competition in bank …