Assessing competition in banking industry: a multiproduct approach
This paper aims to investigate the competition aspects of banking multiproduct operation. Based on an extension of Panzar and Rosse (1987)’s test to the case of a multiproduct banking firm, we take advantage of a new dataset constructed to Brazilian banking conglomerates to infer the impact of congl...
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| Format: | master thesis |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2013 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) |
| Repository: | Repositório Institucional do FGV (FGV Repositório Digital) |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/11075 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10438/11075 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Microeconomics of banking Banking competition Multiproduct firm Economia Macroeconomia Concorrência |
| Summary: | This paper aims to investigate the competition aspects of banking multiproduct operation. Based on an extension of Panzar and Rosse (1987)’s test to the case of a multiproduct banking firm, we take advantage of a new dataset constructed to Brazilian banking conglomerates to infer the impact of conglomeration on market power. We find that banks offering classic (i.e., loans and credit cards) and other bank products (i.e., brokerage services, insurance and capitalization bonds) have substantially higher market power than the ones which offer only classic products. Results suggest a positive bias on the traditional estimates of competition in which the multioutput actions are not taken into account. |
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