Mergers in financial services and overlending

In this paper we build a model of banking competition that considers a managerial- overconfidence setup resulting in two main findings. First, a merger between rational banks may change their behaviour in that, in post-merger conditions, they would follow the overconfident bank when they would not h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Peón, David, Antelo, Manel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/690832
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/690832
https://dx.doi.org/10.32826/cude.v42i116.80
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Banking efficiency
Behavioural finance
Mergers
Herding
Merger paradox
Overconfidence
Economía
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Sumario:In this paper we build a model of banking competition that considers a managerial- overconfidence setup resulting in two main findings. First, a merger between rational banks may change their behaviour in that, in post-merger conditions, they would follow the overconfident bank when they would not have done so pre-merger, thereby amplifying the credit boom. Second, the results overcome the merger paradox, in the sense that the merger would be profitable for participants and thus intrinsically stable