The Determinants of Bank Mergers: A Revealed Preference Analysis

Oktay Akkus (), J. Anthony Cookson () and Ali Hortacsu
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Oktay Akkus: Nathan Associates, Arlington, Virginia 22209
J. Anthony Cookson: Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309

Management Science, 2016, vol. 62, issue 8, 2241-2258

Abstract: We provide new estimates of merger value creation by exploiting revealed preferences of merging banks within a matching market framework. We find that merger value arises from cost efficiencies in overlapping markets, relaxing of regulation, and network effects exhibited by the acquirer-target matching. Beyond our findings, the revealed preference method has notable advantages that warrant its application beyond the bank merger market. Notably, we show that the method outperforms reduced form alternatives out of sample, enables sensible counterfactual experiments, and can be used to evaluate private-to-private mergers, which have been understudied because of lack of stock market data.Data, as supplemental material, are available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2015.2245 . This paper was accepted by Amit Seru, finance .

Keywords: corporate finance; financial institutions; banks; industrial organization; market structure; mergers; two-sided matching; antitrust; banking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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