Mergers in financial services and overlending

Authors

  • David Peón Department of Business, University of A Coruna, Campus Elviña s/n, 15071 A Coruña (Spain)
  • Manel Antelo Department of Economics, University of Santiago de Compostela, Campus Norte s/n, 15782 Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32826/cude.v42i116.80

Keywords:

Banking efficiency, behavioural finance, mergers, herding, merger paradox, overconfidence

Abstract

In this paper we build a model of banking competition that considers a managerial-overconfidence setup resulting in two main findings. First, a merger between rational banks may change their behaviour in that, in post-merger conditions, they would follow the overconfident bank when they would not have done so pre-merger, thereby amplifying the credit boom. Second, the results overcome the merger paradox, in the sense that the merger would be profitable for participants, and thus intrinsically stable.

Published

2018-04-11