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Title:	Are mergers beneficial to consumers? Evidence from the Italian market for bank deposits
Authors:	Panetta, Fabio Focarelli, Dario
Keywords:	mergers efficiency market power bank mergers
Issue Date:	Mar-2003
Publisher:	CEIS
Series/Report no.:	CEIS Tor Vergata Research Paper 10
Abstract:	The general conclusion of the empirical literature is that in-market consolidation generates adverse price changes, thereby harming consumers. Previous studies, however, look only at the short-run pricing impact of consolidation, ignoring all effects that take a longer time to materialize. Using a database that includes detailed information on the deposit rate paid by individual banks in local markets to different categories of depositors, we investigate for the first time the long-run pricing effects of M&As. We find strong evidence that, although in the short run consolidation generates adverse price changes, these are only a temporary phenomenon. In the long run efficiency gains dominate over the market power effect of mergers, leading to more favorable prices for consumers.
URI:	http://ssrn.com/abstract=286992 http://hdl.handle.net/2108/51
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