List of Tables, List of Figures, Acknowledgments, Preface, CONTESTABLE MARKETS THEORY AND COMMERCIAL BANKING, Introduction, Application of Contestable Markets Theory to Commercial Banking, Discussion of Theory Assumptions for Individual Products, LITERATURE REVIEW, Aggregate Empirical Research in CMT Other Empirical Research in CMT, METHODOLOGY, Profitability Measurement, One Factor Model, Excess Market Value, Tobin's q Approximation, Compensating Deviation Measurement, Cash Flow Evaluation, Disaggregated FCA Data, RESULTS, Profitability Measurement Tests, One Factor Model, Excess Market Value, Tobin's q Approximation, V. IMPLICATIONS OF RESULTS, Summary of Results, Implications, Future Research, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX