The Bank Merger Wave: The Economic Causes and Social Consequences of Financial Consolidation: The Economic Causes and Social Consequences of Financial ... (Issues in Money, Banking, and Finance)

by Gary Dymski (Author), Gary Dymski (Author)

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  Illustrated
  1999

  $47.54

  The merger-mania of the 1990s has seen half of all US banks in operation at the end of the 1970 disappear. This study shows that it is not operating efficiences driving the mergers, and that consolidation may have effects contrary to consumer and non-financial businesss interests.