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Working Paper
Structural screens in stochastic markets
Working Paper
A note on antitrust in a stochastic market
Journal Article
Has antitrust policy in banking become obsolete?
The authors analyze the effect of bank mergers on deposit interest rates, using data on banks responding to the Federal Reserve's Monthly Survey of Selected Deposits over an 11-year period. Their results suggest that banks exercise market power in pricing money market deposits and CD's in their local markets.
Conference Paper
Antitrust policy in banking: current status and future prospects
Conference Paper
Antitrust policy in banking: comments
Conference Paper
Bank merger activity: the antitrust perspective
Conference Paper
Consolidation in the banking industry: an antitrust perspective
Working Paper
Market definition and the analysis of antitrust in banking
In antitrust analysis of bank mergers, banking markets are viewed as geographically local, with a "cluster" of products as the relevant product line. This view is criticized as outdated, now that many bank products are offered by nonbank institutions and financial institutions' operations are increasingly national in scope. This paper reexamines the question of market definition in banking, using two micro data sets uniquely well-suited to the task. We find that local depositories remain the dominant supplier of key financial services to households and small businesses, with geographic ...