competition are quite limited. We propose and implement a frontier- based method to assess relative competition in bank …

competition are quite limited. We propose and implement a frontierbased method to assess relative competition in bank …

Most people in rural Africa do not have bank accounts. In this paper, we combine experimental and survey evidence from … had two parts. In the first part, we waived the fixed cost of opening a basic savings account at a local bank for a random … evidence suggests that the main reasons people did not begin saving in their bank accounts are that: (1) they do not trust the …