A welfare analysis of Canadian chartered bank mergers
An econometric model of Canada's five largest banks is estimated using time series data from 1976 to 1996. The principal findings are that chartered bank technology is characterized by increasing returns to scale. Scale efficiency is sufficiently large to offset the consequences of reduced competition that might have arisen from a merger between Bank of Montreal and Royal Bank of Canada, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Toronto Dominion Bank, or both. The estimated model predicts that all the mergers proposed in 1998 would have led to slightly lower prices and, consequently, to an increase in consumer welfare.
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2002
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Authors: | McIntosh, James |
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Canadian Journal of Economics. - Canadian Economics Association - CEA. - Vol. 35.2002, 3, p. 457-475
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Canadian Economics Association - CEA |
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