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.
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