on bank credit and as they represent the vast majority of the corporate sector reduced credit availability for those …-sized enterprises (SME). We measure the financing opportunities of SMEs based on the bank debt/assets ratio and the logarithmized credit … size and control both explicitly for bank mergers and for the increase in the average bank size in the course of the …

impact of bank mergers on deposit rates. In particular, results on the dynamics of deposit rates surrounding bank mergers … vary substantially across studies. In this paper, we aim for a comprehensive empirical analysis of a bank merger's impact … monthly frequency for the time period 1997-2006. These data are matched with individual bank and local market characteristics …