Bank Consolidation and Soft Information Acquisition in Small Business Lending

We empirically examine the impact of bank consolidation on bank acquisition of soft information about borrowers. Using a dataset of small business financing, we find that mergers of small banks have a negative impact on soft information acquisition, whereas mergers of large banks have no impact. We...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of financial services research 2014-04, Vol.45 (2), p.173-200
Hauptverfasser:	Ogura, Yoshiaki, Uchida, Hirofumi
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Bank acquisitions & mergers Banking industry Consolidation Datasets Economics and Finance Finance Financial Services Hypotheses Interest rates Investigations Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics Production capacity Small business loans Studies
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