Nonparametric demand analysis is used in order to establish admissible monetary aggregates and also to establish a potential role for relative prices in the money demand function. A conventional money demand specification is then contrasted with a money demand function which contains the...

Analyses alternative forms of pricing and pricing strategies of bank payments services and reports the results of an international survey of pricing practices in 11 countries. Makes a distinction between implicit and explicit pricing and, in the context of British banks′ policy of implicit...

Outlines previous research on the efficiency of financial institutions and builds on an earlier study of the relative efficiency of 190 UK bank branches by the authors to determine their size efficiency relationship and their determinants of relative inefficiency. Explains the data envelopment...