contained in the June bank Call Reports, we find that small commercial and industrial (C&I) loans add value to community banks …

We empirically examine the impact of bank consolidation on bank acquisition of soft information about borrowers. Using … complexity upon a merger, rather than a post-merger cost-cut, is likely to cause a negative and significant impact on soft …

merger related effects on small business lending in Germany from a bank-level perspective. Furthermore, we estimate small … businesses compared to prior to the merger or compared to the contemporaneous lending by non-merging banks. We investigate the … for panel data as proposed by Arellano and Bond (1991). -- Bank mergers ; small business lending …

, and the kink point is 5%. Using the bank merger events and the 5% rule as the exogenous shock for blockholders, our …In this paper, we investigate the impact of bank mergers on the lending relationship and on client-firm performance. We … study bank mergers that have occurred in Japan since 2000 and find that banks reduce the loan amounts for firms with which …

The literature has shown that in the short- and medium-term bank mergers and acquisitions (M&As) may generate a … temporary reduction in firm credit. Using bank-firm matched data, this paper investigates the impact of M&As involving Italian … existing evidence. The drop is smaller for infra-group mergers, when the target is healthy or is the firm’s main bank, while is …