Staying, dropping, or switching: The impacts of bank mergers on small firms

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1102-1140

  Degryse, Hans ^a   Masschelein, Nancy ^b   Mitchell, Janet ^c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Financial Architects and National Bank of Belgium   (Belgium)

^c NATIONAL BANK OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

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EID: 79953881901     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: 14657368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhp126     Document Type: Article

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