Mega-mergers in the US banking industry

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 609-622

  Elfakhani, Said ^a   Ghantous, Rita F ^a   Baalbaki, Imad ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b NONE   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE; MERGER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0041314027     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0960310032000050669     Document Type: Article

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