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Foundations of a Bank Merger Control for Europe

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Manfred Neumann stimulated thinking about “banking and antitrust”. By combining results of financial and industrial economics, he discussed whether shareholding by banks in business firms has anticompetitive effects in the non-bank industry (Neuberger and Neumann 1991). The present paper, too, will be on “banking and antitrust”, focusing on antitrust policy in the banking industry.

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    Doris Neuberger

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    Dennis C. Mueller

  2. Deutsches Institut für Wirtshaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin, Germany

    Alfred Haid

  3. University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

    Jürgen Weigand

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Neuberger, D. (1999). Foundations of a Bank Merger Control for Europe. In: Mueller, D.C., Haid, A., Weigand, J. (eds) Competition, Efficiency, and Welfare. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5559-9_9

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