“…Sharpe (1997), Hannan and Adams (2011), and Carbo-Valverde, Hannan and Rodriguez-Fernandez (2011) find that areas with higher inmigration, and, thus, a supposedly higher share of people choosing without default option, offer higher deposit rates on average. Several authors analyze instead determinants of switching banks using survey data and find that household relocation, service, and price factors (Kiser (2002)), proxies for switching costs (Brown, Guin and Morkoetter (2013)), but also education and financial literacy (Brunetti, Ciciretti and Djordjevic (2016)) matter for the propensity to switch. I provide new reduced-form evidence that monetary switching benefits and online banking usage are important determinants of the decision to switch.…”