Bank mergers, competition, and liquidity

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1067-1105

  Carletti, Elena ^a,b,c   Hartmann, Philipp ^d,e   Spagnolo, Giancarlo ^e,f,g  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON COLLECTIVE GOODS   (Germany)

^d EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

^e Centre for Economic Policy Research

^f UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^g STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bank reserves; Banking system liquidity; Credit market competition; Internal money market; Monetary operations

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547537291     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2007.00058.x     Document Type: Article

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