The high credit card interest rates in Turkey attracted considerable attention in recent years to regulate the Turkish credit card industry. Before any regulation decision taken, there needs to be better conceptualization and analysis of the Turkish credit card market. This paper sheds some...

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...