such cooperative practices. There are two adjacent markets with one savings or cooperative bank being focused on each one … and one private commercial bank serving both. We find that abolishing regional demarcation indeed increases total loan … shields the private commercial bank from aggressive competition by these banks. -- banking ; competition ; cooperation : non …

such cooperative practices. There are two adjacent markets with one savings or cooperative bank being focused on each one … and one private commercial bank serving both. We find that abolishing regional demarcation indeed increases total loan … shields the private commercial bank from aggressive competition by these banks. -- banking ; competition ; cooperation ; non …

This paper suggests a motive for bank mergers that goes beyond alleged and typically unverifiable scale economies … distress mergers. The data comprise 3640 banks and 1484 mergers. Our results suggest that bank mergers as a means of preemtive …

taken over by others are less efficient than the average bank in the same size class, but exhibit on average the same …

techniques for retail banking, like bank-ICT and rating systems. The detailed comparison of a savings bank with a big bank …

survival of top executives (Presidents, CEOs and General Managers) to bank performance and the manager's local connections …, controlling for (observable and unobservable) bank and manager characteristics by exploiting longitudinal information on bank …-manager appointments. We measure the extent? of managers' local connections by the distance between the province of the bank's headquarters …