Cerasi, Vittoria; Chizzolini, Barbara; Ivaldi, Marc - In: Applied Economics 34 (2002) 17, pp. 2213-2225
In this study branching costs and competitiveness of European banks are measured by fitting a monopolistic competition model to a representative sample drawn from nine EEC banking industries in the period from 1990 to 1996. In the theoretical model, banks decide strategically the size of their...