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Fees for banking services have been a policy concern for over 20 years and the subject of several government agencies …
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growth. We further demonstrate that banking market structure can be responsible for the emergence of development traps in …
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This paper studies ATM coalitions in retail banking. We ask when it is profitable for banks to make agreements which … in the banking market. We find that such agreements are profitable when the interchange fee is sufficiently high. When … typically higher with a coalition. -- Banking competition, ATM networks, collusion …
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In this paper we show that bank competition has an intrinsically ambiguous impact on capital accumulation. We further show that it is also responsible for the emergence of development traps in economies that otherwise would be characterized by unique equilibria. These results explain the...
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growth. We further demonstrate that banking market structure can be responsible for the emergence of development traps in …
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bank loan quality. It shows that if a banking market is liberalized, the opportunity cost of screening loan applicants is …
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Empirical models of demand for -- and, often, supply of -- differentiated products are widely used in practice, typically employing parametric functional forms and distributions of consumer heterogeneity. We review some recent work studying identification in a broad class of such models. This...
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We investigate how key monetary policy instruments and financial regulation affect the banking firm. We take the user … cost approach to the construction of prices for financial services and use quarterly data on the U.S. commercial banking … evidence consistent with neoclassical microeconomic theory. We find that the compensated price elasticities of banking …
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We show that medium-term interest rates in the euro area, Japan, UK and US are affected by domestic and foreign shocks. We find that US rates are the main source of spillovers globally and are less exposed to foreign shocks. Foreign spillovers to European rates were negligible only during the...
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Strong lending relationships between banks and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a key role in the bank-based financial system of Germany. So far, they have been mainly described by the notion of an housebank and transactional features of long-term bank-customer relationships. The...
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