among bankers and academics is that competition has significantly increased in this changing European banking environment …

, will depend on the extent to which competition in banking is based on fixed or variable costs. If competition focuses on … by the deregulation process. Alternatively, when competition focuses on expenses unrelated to the level of intermediation … competition in fixed costs such as brand image or electronic banking. I propose a simple test using aggregate data to provide an …

different types of market structure ranging from perfect competition when there are very many firms (and when consumer welfare … is maximised), through imperfect competition under an oligopoly, to monopoly. …

Studies and The Regional Studies Department's members in 2009 -2011. The introductory part of the paper is focused on the …

on the structure of competition in the credit card industry. Potential reasons for the lack of competitions are denoted … cost of fund. This result indicates that Turkish credit card market is characterized with lack of strong competition and …