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The Impact Of Internet-Based Services On Credit Unions: A Propensity Score Matching Approach, Elisabeta Pana, Sascha Vitzthum, David Willis
The Impact Of Internet-Based Services On Credit Unions: A Propensity Score Matching Approach, Elisabeta Pana, Sascha Vitzthum, David Willis
Elisabeta Pana
Credit unions focus their profit and capital management on the tradeoff between providing immediate financial benefits to members and augmenting their institutional well-being through capital accumulation. In this study, we investigate the changes in benefits to credit union members via the interest-rate spread around the adoptions of internet-based services for the period of 2000–2009. Using the propensity score matching method, we show that adopters offer a less favorable interest-rate spread to their members than non-adopters. However, we find evidence that early adopters have a lower degree of market power in dealing with their members than late adopters and offer interest-rate …