The Effect Of Merger And Aquisition On Nigeria Economy

                  Abstract   Mergers and acquisitions are the major instruments of the recent banking reforms in Nigeria. The effects and the implications of the reforms on the lending practices of merged banks to small businesses were considered in this study. These effects were divided into static and dynamic effects (restructuring, direct and external). Data were collected by cross-sectional research design and were subsequently analyzed by the ordinary least square (OLS) method. The analyses show that bank size, financial charac…