Evanoff, Douglas D.; Ors, Evren - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2002
bank entry restrictions on the average performance of banks [Jayaratne and Strahan (1998)]. The evidence suggests that … in bank merger activity. We take a somewhat more comprehensive and micro-oriented approach and evaluate the impact of … actual and potential competition resulting from market-entry mergers and reductions in entry barriers on bank efficiency. In …