Cerasi, Vittoria; Chizzolini, Barbara; Ivaldi, Marc - 2010 - This draft: 24 November 2009
given by testing a monopolistic competition model of bank branching behaviour on individual bank data at county level … among incumbent banks on competition and discuss when, depending on the pre-merger structure of the market and geographic … distribution of branches, the merger is anti-competitive. The paper has implications for competition policy as it suggests an …
