Asker, John (contributor); Ljungqvist, Alexander (contributor) - 2006
. Introduction
Investment banks act as gatekeepers to the capital markets. Understanding how enterprises and
banks interact is thus …” and thus had an incentive to restrict their dealing
to a very limited number of investment banks. In the same inquiry … shows, many mergers involve acquisitions of investment banks by commercial
banks, such as the 1999 acquisition of …