Working Paper
Market power in outputs and inputs: an empirical application to banking
Adams, Robert M.; Sickles, Robin C.; Roller, Lars-Hendrik (2002)
This paper provides evidence on the empirical separability of input and output market imperfections. We specify a model of banking competition and simultaneously estimate bank conduct in output (loan) and input (deposit) markets. Our results suggest that firms display some degree of non-competitive behavior in both the loan and the deposit markets. Moreover, we find that the input side and the output side are empirically separable, that is, the measurement of market power on one side of the market is not affected by assuming that the other side of the market is perfectly competitive. Our ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 2002-52

Working Paper
Scope and scale economies in Federal Reserve payment processing
Bauer, Paul W.; Adams, Robert M.; Sickles, Robin C. (2002)
In the past decade, the U.S. economy has witnessed a tremendous surge in the usage of electronic payment processing services and an increased importance of the firms that provide these services. The payments industry has also undergone changes in cost structure with the introduction of new technology. Unfortunately, data on the private provision of payment processing services are not available. However, the Federal Reserve provides similar services and collects data on its own provision of payments processing, offering an opportunity to gain insights into the cost structure of payments ...
Working Papers (Old Series) , Paper 0213

Working Paper
Scale economies, scope economies, and technical change in Federal Reserve payment processing
Bauer, Paul W.; Adams, Robert M.; Sickles, Robin C. (2002)
In the past decade, the U.S. economy has witnessed a tremendous surge in the usage of electronic payment processing services and an increased importance of the firms that provide these services. The payments industry has also undergone changes in cost structure with the introduction of new technology. Unfortunately, data on the private provision of payment processing services are not available. However, the Federal Reserve provides similar services and collects data on its own provision of payments processing, offering an opportunity to gain insights into the cost structure of payments ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 2002-57