Abstract
There has developed over the last several years a large and growing literature on the relationship between local bank market structure and performance. Two characteristics of this development are particularly notable. First, a carefully structured microeconomic model of the banking firm is rarely used as the starting point of the analysis. Secondly, the possibility that local market structure may have a differential impact on bank performance in different activities seems to have escaped systematic investigation. Specifically, it is a contention of this study that an empirical investigation of structure and performance in banking must be grounded in the explicit development of a microeconomic model of the banking firm.
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