The Effects of Megamergers on Efficiency and Prices: Evidence from a Bank Profit Function
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- 1 January 1997
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- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
This paper examines the efficiency and price effects of mergers by applying a frontier profit function to data on bank `megamergers'. We find that merged banksKeywords
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