Staying, Dropping, or Switching: The Impacts of Bank Mergers on Small Firms
Staying, Dropping, or Switching: The Impacts of Bank Mergers on Small Firms
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留下、放弃还是转换:银行合并对小企业的影响
DOI:
10.1093/rfs/hhp126
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发表时间:
2009
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通讯作者:
Janet Mitchell
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作者:
H. Degryse;Nancy Masschelein;Janet Mitchell
Assessing the impacts of bank mergers on small firms requires separating borrowers with single versus multiple banking relationships and distinguishing the three alternatives of "staying," "dropping," and "switching" of relationships. Single-relationship borrowers who "switch" to another bank following a merger will be less harmed than those whose relationship is "dropped" and not replaced. Using Belgian data, we find that single-relationship borrowers of target banks are more likely than other borrowers to be dropped. We track postmerger performance and show that many dropped target-bank borrowers are harmed by the merger. Multiple-relationship borrowers are less harmed, as they can better hedge against relationship discontinuations. The Author 2011. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Society for Financial Studies. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org., Oxford University Press.