岭南学术论坛－经济学系列Seminar－Consumer Valuation of Network Convenience: Evidence from the Banking Industry

第552期岭南学术论坛（经济学系列Seminar）

报告题目：Consumer Valuation of Network Convenience: Evidence from the Banking Industry

报   告 人：Andrew T. Ching（Johns Hopkins大学 教授）

主   持 人：侯晨雪（中山大学岭南学院 助理教授）

时        间：2019年11月20日（周三）下午14:30-16:00

地        点：岭南堂汪道涵会议室

语        言：中文+英文

Abstract：

This paper develops a structural multi-location consumer demand model to analyze spatially differentiated retail networks. A novel feature is that we allow consumers to care about outlets that are close to either home or workplace locations. This is in contrast to the previous literature, which assumes consumers only value their home locations. We apply our model to the U.S. retail banking industry. To estimate our model, we use a detailed worker flow dataset to obtain consumers’ home and work locations, and combine it with a dataset that details each branch’s deposit and location in 132 isolated US cities. Our results shows that consumers put almost equal weights on their home and workplace locations in accessing banking services. To demonstrate the value of a bank’s branch network, we conduct a counterfactual experiment by restricting consumers to access banking services from only one branch. Effectively, this restricts consumers to access banking services from either home or workplace location, but not both. We find that for banks with more than 10 branches per local market, on average they could lose 8.6 percent of their existing market share under this counterfactual scenario.

报告人介绍：

      Andrew T. Ching，Johns Hopkins大学Carey商学院教授，并任Management Science副主编，主要研究领域为数量市场营销、产业经济学和应用计量经济学，在Econometrica, Marketing Science, Management Science, International Economic Review等国际顶尖期刊发表多篇论文。

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