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Application of Price Bundling Strategies in Retail Banking in Europe

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Mankila, Merja (Department of Business Administration, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg University)
Abstract

Application of price bundling strategies in retail banking in Europe is a report based on an empirical study of price bundling practices in Southern, Central and Northern Europe. The current report defines three core price bundling models that are in one form or another applied by the interviewed banks. The models are cost efficiency bundling, cross-selling bundling and loyalty bundling. Price bundling has been started to apply in retail banking in Europe in the 1980’s. Price bundling is regarded as an important strategy in the intensified competitive market and it is also supposed to satisfy increasingly sophisticated customers in the future. The price bundles that the interviewed banks apply can be explained by the competitive conditions in the retail banking markets concerning both what the banks aim at, their competitive advantages, and the market factors. Banks in different parts of Europe have different competitive advantages that they find important when pursuing their price bundling strategies. Common to all the markets is the threat of customers to switch banks, which was identified as the main driving force in competition.

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Paper provided by Göteborg University, Department of Business Administration in its series FE rapport with number 2001-379.

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Date of creation: 23 Feb 2001
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Handle: RePEc:hhb:gunwba:2001_379

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Postal: Dept of Business Adminstration, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, Box 610, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
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Keywords: Price bundling; strategy; competition; competitive advantage; retail banking;

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M29 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting - - Business Economics - - - Other

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