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deregulation process. We find that once the geographic deregulation process finishes, inter-regional mergers between savings banks … will be mergers between savings and commercial banks. -- branch deregulation ; mergers ; optimal behavior ; Spanish banking …
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deregulation process. We find that once the geographic deregulation process finishes, inter-regional mergers between savings banks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317061
The market for payment cards is inherently two sided. Consumers benefit from increased merchant acceptance of payment cards and vice versa. To quantify the interdependence of consumer and merchants or network externalities, we construct and estimate a structural two-sided model of a payment...
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The 1994 Riegle-Neal Act (RN) removed restrictions on branch-network expansion for banks in the United States. An important motivation was to facilitate geographic risk diversification (GRD). Using a factor model to measure banks' geographic risk, we show that RN expanded GRD possibilities in...
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This paper examines the evolution of market structure in emerging market banking systems during the 1990s. While significant bank consolidation has been taking place in these countries, reflected in a sharp decline in the number of banks, this process has not systematically been associated with...
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This paper studies the integration of deposit and loan markets, which may be constrained by the geographic dispersion of depositors, borrowers, and banks. This dispersion results in problems of asymmetric information, monitoring and transaction costs, which in turn may prevent deposits from...
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This paper examines competition among commercial banks following deregulation in a small open economy. I jointly … size is important for product differentiation. Following deregulation, bank competition intensifies and cost efficiency …
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We study the effect of bank merger deregulation on market structure and wages in the banking industry. We show that … state deregulation of bank mergers and acquisitions increased the market share of large, multi-state banks and lowered wages …. Deregulation had no measurable effect on employment within the banking industry, and no direct effect on banking …
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