Despite extensive research interest in the last decade, the banking literature has notreached a consensus on the impact of bank mergers on deposit rates. In particular,results on the dynamics of deposit rates surrounding bank mergers vary substantiallyacross studies. In this paper, we aim for a...

Despite extensive research interest in the last decade, the banking literature has not reached a consensus on the impact of bank mergers on deposit rates. In particular, results on the dynamics of deposit rates surrounding bank mergers vary substantially across studies. In this paper, we aim for...