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Type: Journal article
Title: Bank on steel? Joint-stock banks and the rationalization of the British interwar steel industry
Author: Holmes, S.
Ploeckl, F.
Citation: European Review of Economic History, 2015; 19(1):88-107
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Issue Date: 2015
ISSN: 1361-4916
1474-0044
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Simon C. Holmes and Florian Ploeckl
Abstract: This study investigates the impact of joint-stock banks on the rationalization of the British interwar steel industry. A new panel data set of steel firm characteristics covering 1920–1938 is used to document rationalization and bank involvement, including interlocking directorships, with both found to be more extensive than previously thought. A set of all potential amalgamation pairs is created and used in a logit analysis of the determinants of mergers. Bank involvement with firms increased the probability that a particular merger occurred. Furthermore, mergers with bank involvement differed in their impact on profitability from those without.
Rights: ©The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Historical Economics Society. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com
DOI: 10.1093/ereh/heu021
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ereh/heu021
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