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Banking consolidation and the availability of credit to small businesses
Cole, Rebel; Walraven, Nick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
In this study, we use firm-level data from the 1993 National Survey of Small Business Finances to test the hypothesis that banking consolidation has reduced the availability of credit to small businesses. We find that banks in markets where mergers have occurred are more likely than other banks...
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Do mergers create or destroy value? Evidence from unsuccessful mergers
Cole, Rebel; Fatemi, Ali; Vu, Joseph - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
In this study, we examine unsuccessful takeover attempts for new evidence on whether mergers create or destroy value … literature on signaling by investigating whether a takeover attempt signals investors about the quality of firm management as … partially, but not completely, reversed by termination announcement returns, evidence that the merger proposal itself contains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837001
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The Effectiveness of Competition Policy: An Econometric Assessment in Developed and Developing Countries
Samà, Danilo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The ultimate objective of the present paper is to empirically investigate the effectiveness of competition policy in developed and developing countries. Although its importance is continuously increasing, the effectiveness of competition policy still seems to lack the attention that it would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109090
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Concentration in ICTs sector – cross country analysis.
Ewa, Lechman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In the chapter below, the author presents inequalities in sector of new information and communication technologies. Having in mind inequalities we can also discuss concentration issues, and the concentration itself is a problem to which the author refers on first place. The paper is organized as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258887
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The monopoly benchmark on two-sided markets
Mueller, Christopher; Boehme, Enrico - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
proposed platform mergers, where the assessment might crucially depend on the number of platforms after a merger. …
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Polskie instytucje finansowe: Kreacja rynków i procesy konsolidacyjne
Poteraj, Jarosław - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
The work consists of four chapters, two annexes and an appendix. In the first chapter the author gives an ordered classification of the subjects of the financial markets, focusing on Polish markets. The next chapter presents a detailed history of the formation of the markets of the Polish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372522
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Effect of Mergers and Acquisitions on Market Concentration and Interest Spread
Khan, Mehwish Aziz; Kayani, Ferheen; Javid, Attiya Yasmin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Pakistan. To assess whether the merger of Pakistani banks were a success or otherwise, profitability, liquidity ratios, and net … a rising trend during 2008 and 2009 after mergers occurred during 2007 as a result of merger. However, it shows the …
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Market concentration and competition in Vietnamese banking sector.
Le, Trung H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Vietnamese banking system has been playing a vital role in the development and economic growth since the economic renewal campaign namely “Doi Moi” in 1986. However, since the global financial crisis, financial and banking system has been under stress, exposing much weaknesses, severely...
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The "Average" Within-Sector Firm Heterogeneity in General Oligopolistic Equilibrium
Colacicco, Rudy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper builds a general oligopolistic equilibrium model to investigate how within-sector firm heterogeneities affect wage rate, country-wide profits, and welfare. Using linear inverse demands, I consider asymmetric sectors, each involving n Cournot oligopolists producing horizontally...
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The economics of food security in Arab micro states: preliminary evidence from micro data
Basher, Syed Abul; Raboy, David G.; Kaitibie, Simeon; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Using Qatar as a case study, we exploit a novel micro dataset for 102 raw agricultural imported commodities on a shipment-by-shipment basis over the period January 1, 2005 to June 30, 2010. The data comprise over half a million individual observations, with a very rich set of characteristic...
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