Bank mergers as scale-free coagulation

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 336, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 571-584

  Pushkin, Dmitri O ^a   Aref, Hassan ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bank mergers; Bank size distribution; Coagulation; Gelation; Globalization; Growth; Mean field; Merger market; Power law; Self similarity

Indexed keywords

COAGULATION; GAME THEORY; GELATION; INTEGRATION; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BANK MEREGRS; BANK-SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; GLOBALIZATION; MEAN FIELDS; MERGER MARKETS; POWER-LAWS; SELF-SIMILARITY;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 1642617440     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2003.12.056     Document Type: Article

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