Abstract
This article presents a test for perfect competition in the deposit market of the UK retail-banking sector. The model employed draws from the New Economic Industrial Organisation (NEIO) technique forwarded by Hannan and Liang [1993]. The test is applied to a sample of eight UK retail banks between 1992-97. The presence of perfect competition is rejected for all banks. The empirical evidence does not support qualitative evidence of increasing competitiveness amongst UK retail banks.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 119-132 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Service Industries Journal |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - Apr 2001 |