Mergers in financial services and overlending

  1. David Peón 1
  2. Manel Antelo 2
  1. 1 Universidade da Coruña
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    Universidade da Coruña

    La Coruña, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01qckj285

  2. 2 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Santiago de Compostela, España

    ROR https://ror.org/030eybx10

Revista:
Cuadernos de economía: Spanish Journal of Economics and Finance

ISSN: 2340-6704 0210-0266

Ano de publicación: 2018

Volume: 41

Número: 116

Páxinas: 167-180

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.32826/CUDE.V42I116.80 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openBiblos-e Archivo editor

Outras publicacións en: Cuadernos de economía: Spanish Journal of Economics and Finance

Resumo

In this paper we build a model of banking competition that considers a manageri-al-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 over-confident 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.

Información de financiamento

The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support received from the Xunta de Galicia (Spain) through Research Project ED431B2016/001 Consolidación e estruturación – 2016 GPC GI-2016 Análise económica dos mercados e institucións. This research has also received the funding of the Program for the “Consolidation and Structuring of Competitive Research Units - Research Networks (Redes de Investigación)” (Ref. ED341D R2016/014), Proxectos Plan Galego IDT, from the Xunta de Galicia (Spain).

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