Who’s cashing in on mergers? Measuring the benefits of consolidation
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Globalisation of industry, technological advances, and the blurring of geographic and economic borders have, until recently, all contributed to an increase in mergers and acquisitions activity. Yet do these developments actually lead to any benefits? Focusing on the banking sector, Alan Horncastle, Oxera Principal, and Professor Subal Kumbhakar, Associate, consider how econometric techniques can be used to measure the impacts of consolidation
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