We model the impact of bank mergers on loan competition, reserve holdings and aggregate liquidity. A merger changes the … distribution of bank sizes and aggregate liquidity needs. Mergers among large banks tend to increase aggregate liquidity needs and … thus the public provision of liquidity through monetary operations of the central bank. …

The profit-maximizing and oligopoly bank model developed by Bresnahan and Lau allows determining the degree of market … power held by an average bank. The equilibrium price equation includes a mark up, which is not used in the case of perfect …

approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … ignores differences in bank product quality and design, as well as the attractiveness of innovations. We measure competition …

resultant credit restriction by turning to other banks. Importantly the bank-lending channel is notably stronger when we account …

endogenously determined. Although the microeconomics of the bank behaviour is quite simple, credit and money as well as bonds …