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 ha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Peón Pose, David, Antelo Suárez, Manel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
Repositorio:Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:minerva.usc.gal:10347/45419
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10347/45419
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Banking efficiency
Behavioural finance
Mergers
Herding
Merger paradox
Overconfidence
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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.