Innovation, Deregulation, and the Life Cycle of a Financial Service Industry

August 18, 2015

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Fumiko Hayashi, Grace B Li, and Zhu Wang. Innovation, Deregulation, and the Life Cycle of a Financial Service Industry, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed December 3, 2024

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Summary

This paper examines innovation, deregulation, and firm dynamics over the life cycle of the U.S. ATM and debit card industry. In doing so, we construct a dynamic equilibrium model to study how a major product innovation (introducing the new debit card function) interacted with banking deregulation drove the industry shakeout. Calibrating the model to a novel dataset on ATM network entry, exit, size, and product offerings shows that our theory fits the quantitative pattern of the industry well. The model also allows us to conduct counterfactual analyses to evaluate the respective roles that innovation and deregulation played in the industry evolution.

Subject: Banking, Economic sectors, Expenditure, Financial services, Public expenditure review, Services sector, Technological innovation, Technology

Keywords: ATM network, ATM-debit card, ATM-debit network, ATM-debit service, Automated teller machine, Debit innovation, Deregulation, Industry Dynamics, Innovation, Public expenditure review, Services sector, Shakeout, Technological innovation, WP

Publication Details

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42
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Working Paper No. 2015/192
Stock No:

WPIEA2015192
ISBN:

9781513537733
ISSN:

1018-5941

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