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The Effects of Bank Mergers on Small Business Lending in Germany

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Thomas Bloch of Goethe University Frankfurt, Finance Department examines The Effects of Bank Mergers on Small Business Lending in Germany.

ABSTRACT: In this paper, we examine the impact of mergers among German savings banks on the extent to which these savings banks engage in small business lending. The ongoing consolidation in the banking industry has sparked concerns about the continuous availability of credit to small businesses which has been further fueled by empirical studies that partly confirm a reduction in small business lending in the aftermath of mergers. However, using a proprietary data set of German savings banks we find strong evidence that in Germany merging savings banks do not significantly change the extent to which they lend to small businesses compared to prior to the merger or compared to the contemporaneous lending by non-merging banks. We investigate the merger related effects on small business lending in Germany from a bank-level perspective. Furthermore, we estimate small business lending and its continuous adjustment process simulta! neously using recent General Method of Moments (GMM) techniques for panel data as proposed by Arellano and Bond (1991).

Quelle: Law Professors vom 14.12.2008

Full post as published by Handakte WebLAWg on December 14, 2008 (boomark / email).