Paper analyse retail banking fees in Czech Republic. It depicts bank methods of pricing retail banking fees and selected fees are compared across the market. Competition at similar foreign markets is shortly analysed as comparison tool. Testing the demand side of this market surprisingly revealed that the lack of competition between retail banks is not the main reason of low pressure on retail banking fees decrease. The same testing shows the significant passivity of customers as main cause.

Submitted by Manuela Lopes (manu.hlopes@hotmail.com) on 2012-03-23T05:02:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 discount.pdf: 259598 bytes, checksum: 22629d2c1b0a6a09240f05febeeddef1 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Andrea Virginio Machado (andrea.machado@fgv.br) on 2012-03-23T12:49:52Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 discount.pdf: 259598 bytes, checksum: 22629d2c1b0a6a09240f05febeeddef1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-03-27T18:24:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 discount.pdf: 259598 bytes, checksum: 22629d2c1b0a6a09240f05febeeddef1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-12-19 / Prices of a homogenous package of services present considerable dispersion across banks. A simple model that uses consumer search costs and loyalty is devolped in order to reproduce this empirical observation. Using data for the brazilian banking sector, empirical exercises are performed to allow for: (i) the estimation of consumer search costs by xing the values of other parameters; and (ii) the estimation of the corresponding deadweightlosses imposed by costly search. When only 80% of the population is free to engage in search activity, at a 0.5% monthly interest rate, the upper limit of the support of the search cost distribution is found to be 1805.80 BRL. In this case, the corresponding estimate of the deadweightloss imposed on an average searcher is 233.71 BRL. / Pode-se observar uma considerável dispersão entre os preços que diferentes bancos comerciais no Brasil cobram por um mesmo pacote homogêneo de serviços— dispersão esta que é sustentada ao longo do tempo. Em uma tentativa de replicar esta observação empírica, foi desenvolvido um simples modelo que lança mão do arcabouço da literatura de custos de procura (search costs) e que baseia-se também na lealdade por parte dos consumidores. Em seguida, dados de preços referentes ao setor bancário brasileiro são aplicados ao modelo desenvolvido e alguns exercícios empíricos são então realizados. Esses exercícios permitem que: (i) os custos de procura incorridos pelos consumidores sejam estimados, ao fixar-se os valores dos demais parâmetros e (ii) as correspondentes perdas de peso-morto que surgem como consequência dos custos de procura incorridos pelos consumidores sejam também estimadas. Quando apenas 80% da população é livre para buscar por bancos que cobrem menores tarifas, à taxa de juros mensal de 0,5%, o valor estimado do custo de procura médio incorrido pelos consumidores chega a 1805,80 BRL, sendo a correspondente perda de peso-morto média na ordem de 233,71 BRL por consumidor.

The thesis deals with banking fees and commissions in the Czech Republic. Its main goal is to identify real and hypothetical effects that are caused by this element of non-interest banking income. Moreover, the thesis shows that the bank fees and commissions play more significant role than just being a source of banks' income -- diversification and structure of bank income crosses the line of banking system. The first hypothesis on the negative correlation between bank fees and commissions and output of the Czech economy has been proved. Although other two hypothesis have not been sufficiently proved but they have confirmed their relevance for further economic research.