NOTE: THIS DATA FILE WILL CHANGE! To improve accessibility of data for all users, we will convert this file from a text format to an html table by the end of June 2024. Title: Lerner Index in Banking Market for the Plurinational State of Bolivia Series ID: DDOI04BOA066NWDB Source: World Bank Release: Global Financial Development (Not a Press Release) Seasonal Adjustment: Not Seasonally Adjusted Frequency: Annual Units: Index Date Range: 1996-01-01 to 2014-01-01 Last Updated: 2018-09-21 1:51 PM CDT Notes: A measure of market power in the banking market. It compares output pricing and marginal costs (that is, markup). An increase in the Lerner index indicates a deterioration of the competitive conduct of financial intermediaries. A measure of market power in the banking market. It is defined as the difference between output prices and marginal costs (relative to prices). Prices are calculated as total bank revenue over assets, whereas marginal costs are obtained from an estimated translog cost function with respect to output. Higher values of the Lerner index indicate less bank competition. Lerner Index estimations follow the methodology described in Demirgüç-Kunt and Martínez Pería (2010). (Calculated from underlying bank-by-bank data from Bankscope) Source Code: GFDD.OI.04 DATE VALUE 1996-01-01 0.11693599999999998 1997-01-01 0.14821900000000002 1998-01-01 0.14488600000000000 1999-01-01 0.21266999999999997 2000-01-01 0.17857500000000000 2001-01-01 0.22256599999999999 2002-01-01 0.24980900000000000 2003-01-01 0.22011900000000000 2004-01-01 0.16281800000000002 2005-01-01 0.18792300000000000 2006-01-01 0.24554900000000000 2007-01-01 0.26306500000000000 2008-01-01 0.33777300000000000 2009-01-01 0.26854500000000000 2010-01-01 0.28006600000000000 2011-01-01 0.34400200000000000 2012-01-01 0.31807300000000000 2013-01-01 0.29451900000000003 2014-01-01 0.32176200000000000