Are the drivers of domestic and cross-border M&As in the banking sector different? We answer this question studying the <italic>ex ante</italic> determinants of national and international acquisitions in the banking sector in an unbalanced panel of nearly 1000 banks from 50 countries, from 1992 to 2007. Contrary...

We experimentally study the effect of financial education on investment attitudes in a large sample of high school students in Italy. Students in the treated classes were taught a course in finance and interviewed before and after the study, while controls were only interviewed. Our principal...

What drives bankers to create larger and larger, often multinational banking groups? In this paper we investigate whether the targets in cross-border bank M&As are materially different from those banks targeted in domestic M&A deals. The main message of this paper is that, with few exceptions,...