Fundación SEPI Contacto  |  Accesibilidad  |  Mapa del sitio  |  Privacidad 
Home  >  Research and Publications  > Working Papers  > Economic Investigations  > Abstract

WORKING PAPER NUM 0109 Print


Working Paper
0109
EL COMPORTAMIENTO DE BANCOS Y CAJAS DE AHORROS ANTE LA DESREGULACIÓN: UN ANÁLISIS ESTRATÉGICO
Ana Lozano Vivas
Antonio J. Morales

Abstract

The paper proposes a spatial competition model of banks' prices and branching decisions as strategic variables in an oligopolistic setting. Since bank typically have more than one branch and their activities usually span over several markets, the multimarket operation of the banks has been taking into account. The model allows to unify the fact that the banks operate in different local markets using branches and they compete in the deposit and loan market using price variables (price of deposit and loan) as well as non-price variable (branches) as strategic variables. An application to Spanish Banking Sector is reported in order to test the effect of banking deregulation in the competition behavior of the two main types of institutions that exist in Spain, private and savings banks.

JEL classification: G21, L13.



 

 


  © 2012 Fundación SEPI  
  Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional CSS Válido! Icono de conformidad con el Nivel AA, de las Directrices de Accesibilidad para el Contenido Web 1.0 del W3C-WAI