Cerasi, Vittoria; Chizzolini, Barbara; Ivaldi, Marc - 2010 - This draft: 24 November 2009
(départements and provinces) in France and Italy. We propose a measure of the degree of competiveness in each local market that is … among incumbent banks on competition and discuss when, depending on the pre-merger structure of the market and geographic … distribution of branches, the merger is anti-competitive. The paper has implications for competition policy as it suggests an …
