How to Disturb the Dominance of the ‘Big 4’ UK Commercial Banks: A Study of Competition through Consolidation

This dissertation, through the estimation of a translog cost function, estimates the efficiency levels of UK commercial banks between 2005 and 2014. This is used to hypothetically merge medium sized banks in order to create real competition for the ‘Big 4’ commercial banks. Both scale inefficiencies...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sharma, Rajan
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2015
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30090/