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With whom to merge? A tale of the Spanish banking deregulation process
Miguel A. Meléndez-jiménezAna Lozano-vivasAntonio J. MoralesAntonio J. Moralessubject
G28L41Financial systemInternational tradeSpanish banking systemoptimal behaviorDeregulationCompetition modelC72Bankddc:330L51FusionSpanienL13DeregulierungBankenregulierungbusiness.industrybranch deregulationEconomies of scaleNichtkooperatives SpielG21mergersbusinessGeneral Economics Econometrics and FinanceMerge (version control)Public financedescription
We propose a spatial competition model to study banks’ strategic responses to the asymmetric Spanish geographic deregulation process. We find that once the geographic deregulation process finishes, inter-regional mergers between savings banks are optimal whenever the economies of scale associated to merging activities are low. If there are large gains, then there will be mergers between savings and commercial banks.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-12-14 | SERIEs |