Bank Mergers and Competition in Japan

Using H-statistic of the Panzar-Rosse model, this paper examines commercial bank merger waves in Japan and their effect on competition in the Japanese banking market during 1983-2006. The H-statistic is estimated separately for three different time periods, the boom, the burst and the recovery. This...

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Main Author: Park, Kang H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Utara Malaysia 2012
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Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/25020/1/IJBF%209%202%202012%201%2025.pdf