Bank Merger Wave: The Economic Causes and Social Consequences of Financial Consolidation

Gary A. Dymski

• List of Figures and Tables, Foreword, Preface and Acknowledgments, Chapter 1. Introduction, Chapter 2. Overview, Chapter 3. Bank Mergers and Regulatory Policy from the 1960s to the 1990s, Chapter 4. Explaining the Bank Merger Wave, Chapter 5. The Ambiguous Basis for Regulating Bank Mergers, Chapter 6. Evidence on the Effects of Bank Mergers and Consolidation, Chapter 7. Banking and Lending Structures: Do Regional Differences Matter?, Chapter 8. Differential Access to Credit, East and West, Chapter 9. Regional Patterns in Credit-Market Disadvantage and Financial Structures, Chapter 10. Bank Concentration, Strategic Interaction, and Access to Credit, Chapter 11. Conclusions, Chapter 12. Ten Recommendations for Public Policy, Notes, Bibliography, Index