Do mergers improve information? evidence from the loan market

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 673-709

  Panetta, Fabio ^a   Schivardi, Fabiano ^b   Shum, Matthew ^c  

^a Banca d'Italia ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Banking; Mergers

Indexed keywords

EID: 65649138470     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2009.00227.x     Document Type: Article

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