The bank merger wave : the economic causes and social consequences of financial consolidation /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Armonk, New York London, England:
M. E. Sharpe,
1999
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| Series: | Issues in money, banking, and finance
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Overview
- Bank mergers and regulatory policy from the 1960s to the 1990s
- Explaining the bank merger wave
- The ambiguous basis for regulating bank mergers
- Evidence on the effects of bank mergers and consolidation
- Banking and lending structures: Do regional differences matter?
- Differential access to credit, East and West
- Regional patterns in credit-market disadvantage and financial structures
- Bank concentration, strategic interaction, and access to credit
- Conclusions
- Ten recommendations for public policy.