Bank mergers and the dynamics of deposit interest rates

Ben Craig and Valeriya Dinger

No 806, Working Papers (Old Series) from Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Abstract: Despite extensive research interest in the last decade, the banking literature has not reached a consensus on the impact of bank mergers on deposit rates. In particular, results on the dynamics of deposit rates surrounding bank mergers vary substantially across studies. In this paper, we aim for a comprehensive empirical analysis of a bank merger?s impact on deposit rate dynamics. We base the analysis on a unique dataset comprising deposit rates of 624 U.S. banks with a monthly frequency for the time period 1997?2006. These data are matched with individual bank and local market characteristics and the complete list of bank mergers in the United States. The data allow us to track the dynamics of bank mergers while controlling for the rigidity of the deposit rates and for a range of merger, bank, and local market features. An innovation of our work is the introduction of an econometric approach for estimating the change of the deposit rates given their rigidity.

Keywords: Bank mergers; Bank deposits (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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Journal Article: Bank Mergers and the Dynamics of Deposit Interest Rates (2009)
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