REGISTERED BANK HOLDING COMPANY ACQUISITIONS: A CROSS-SECTION ANALYSIS.

The article discusses registered bank holding company acquisitions and provides a cross-section analysis of them. The authors state that a great amount of scholarly study has been focused on the field of banking structure. They explain that there have been a number of studies of banking costs under differing market structures with the aim of defining an economically "optimal" banking structure. They say that another vital body of research has been focused on identifying the impact of given market structures on performance variables.