complexity upon a merger, rather than a post-merger cost-cut, is likely to cause a negative and significant impact on soft … information acquisition by small banks. These findings are consistent with the organizational theory that predicts a comparative …

The merger of Fleet and BankBoston in September 1999 resulted in a regional New England lending market in which only … one large, universal bank remained. We explore the extent to which that merger resulted in monopoly rents for the combined … merger, Fleet and BankBoston charged unusually low loan interest rates, reflecting their ability to realize economies of …