Ogura, Yoshiaki; Uchida, Hirofumi - In: Journal of Financial Services Research 45 (2014) 2, pp. 173-200
We empirically examine the impact of bank consolidation on bank acquisition of soft information about borrowers. Using a dataset of small business financing, we find that mergers of small banks have a negative impact on soft information acquisition, whereas mergers of large banks have no impact....
