This paper deals with the issue of how the market structure in banking affects the choice of means of payment. In … incentive to restrict the number of ATMs to a minimum. In general, the number of ATMs depends on competitiveness in the banking …

Twenty years ago, most banking courses focused on either management or monetary aspects of banking, with no connecting …. Since then, a microeconomic theory of banking has developed, mainly through a switch of emphasis from the modeling of risk … useful in pointing out structural weaknesses of the banking sector that may justify government intervention--for example …

industries as diverse as banking, wine production, and clothing design. Many workers communicate regularly with distant coworkers …

Over the last thirty years, a new paradigm in banking theory has overturned economists' traditional vision of the … banking sector. The asymmetric information model, extremely powerful in many areas of economic theory, has proven useful in … banking theory both for explaining the role of banks in the economy and for pointing out structural weaknesses in the banking …

related to multiple and changing equilibria. Results from applying the model to US and five major European banking sectors …

This paper presents evidence on the impact of managers on cost efficiency in banking. Stochastic frontier analysis is …