ComPetition in Bank-Provided Payment ServiCeS
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چکیده
Banks supply payment services that underpin the smooth operation of the economy. To ensure an effi cient payment system, it is important to maintain competition among payment service providers, but data available to gauge the degree of competition are quite limited. We propose and implement a frontierbased method to assess relative competition in bank-provided payment services. Billion dollar banks account for around 90 percent of assets in the U.S., and those with around $4 to $7 billion in assets turn out to be both the most and the least competitive in payment services, not the very largest banks.
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