# Megamerger (also referred to in German as Grossfusion)

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## Definition

In the financial market, the merger of usually two large banks into a single institution. - As experience has taught, it often takes a decade or more for the positive size effects from such a merger to take effect, if they ever do. - See alliances, cross-border, bank size, optimal, bank mergers, Bayrische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG, assertion strategy, contestability, decentralization principle, downsizing, Gibrat rule, gigabank, size effects, consolidation, correspondent banking relationship, megamania, Octopus, Penrose theorem, Postbank, subsidiarity principle, synergy potentials. - Cf. ECB Monthly Bulletin, May 2005, pp. 83 ff. Attention: The financial encyclopedia is protected by copyright and may only be used for private purposes without express consent! University Professor Dr. Gerhard Merk, Dipl.rer.pol., Dipl.rer.oec. Professor Dr. Eckehard Krah, Dipl.rer.pol. E-mail address: info@ekrah.com https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ernst_Merk https://www.jung-stilling-gesellschaft.de/merk/ https://www.gerhardmerk.de/

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