A welfare analysis of Canadian chartered bank mergers;Une analyse de bien-être des fusions des banques à charte canadiennes

Canadian Journal of Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 457-475

  McIntosh, James ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; MERGER; RETURNS TO SCALE; WELFARE IMPACT;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0041403009     PISSN: 00084085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1540-5982.00140     Document Type: Article

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