A model is presented for the estimation of production technology when capital is endogenously utiliz ed. The present model permits the firm to choose the rate of utilizat ion and level of maintenance applied to its capital equipment such th at the user cost of capital services is minimized. The...

The distinction between retail and corporate banking markets is of much importance in real life banking organizations. The two markets differ with respect to concentration, the importance of informational asymmetries, and the extent of customer mobility. Within a standard conjectural variation...

We formulate and estimate a multioutput bank's cost function amenable for distinguishing between economies of scale and economies of network density. We find significant returns to network density, epecially for samller banks. Diseconomies of scale are found for the larger banks, whereas the...

This paper presents a model whereby banking firms use various strategies (price and non-price) simultaneously in a monopolistically competitive model of spatial competition when the various strategies are used across different markets in the presence of a multioutput technology. The theoretical...

Intertemporal shifts in conduct, such as a transition from competitive to anti-competitive behavior, induce shifts in the firms’ equilibrium price configurations. Such shifts generate non-stationary price dynamics in addition to those which originate from exogenous fundamentals. We exploit...

Given the objective of estimating the unknown parameters of a possibly nonlinear dynamic model using a finite (and relatively small) data set, it is common to use a Kalman filter Maximum Likelihood (ML) approach, ML-type estimators or more recently a GMM (Imbens, Spady and Johnson, 1998), BMOM...