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The Benefits and Costs of Bank Mergers**

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

Kalman J. Cohen  and
Samuel Richardson Reid
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The pros and cons of bank mergers and multiple-office banking are in the forefront of bank policy consideration today [8, p. 19] Commercial banks have Joined the industrial and merchandising files., as well as the transportation companies, to sweil a rising tide of merger; The Comptroller of the Currency has reported that nearly 2,000 banks with resources of over $40 billion, were acquired by other banks between 1950 and 1962, inclusive, [47, p. ll].

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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , December 1966 , pp. 15 - 57
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1966

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