Monopoly and Competition in BankingThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1954. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Defining the Market | 8 |
The Market Structure of Unit Banking | 20 |
Concentration in California Banking | 38 |
Measures of Output Performance | 55 |
Comparative Cost Patterns | 77 |
Pricing Practices and Price Policy | 108 |
Pricing and the Open Market | 129 |
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