... THE STATE IN PROMOTING BANK COMPETITION GLOBAL FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2013 in input prices results in a rise in marginal costs, a fall in output, and a decline in rev-enues, leading to an ... monopoly, an increase banking industry. The first indicator, an overall index of barriers to entry, summa-rizes the information needed to obtain a banking license. Higher index values indicate ... THE STATE IN PROMOTING BANK COMPETITION 87indicator, a measure of the effect of effi-ciency on performance in terms of profits. An increase in the Lerner index or the Boone indicator indicates...