The Riegle-Neal Act in 1994 established the conditions for the removal of restrictions on interstate banking and branching in US. One of the primary motivations for enacting this act was permitting banks to diversify geographic risk. The purpose of this paper is to study the role of...

We propose a model of bank choice and price negotiation that incorporates three key features of the market: differentiated services, heterogeneous bank valuations of consumers, and search costs. More generally, our goal is to build and estimate a tractable empirical model to analyze...