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Organisational structure as a driver of mergers and acquisitions in the European banking sector

Lebastard, Laura - 2022

This paper studies the bilateral drivers of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) between European banks. Two findings document that banks use M&A as a device to leverage their expertise rather than to diversify. (i) Following the literature on matrimonial matching by using a binary logit model, the...

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Competition and stability : what's special about banking?

Carletti, Elena; Hartmann, Philipp - 2002

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Cross-Border Mergers and acquisitions : financial and institutional forces

Coeurdacier, Nicolas; De Santis, Roberto A.; Aviat, Antonin - 2009

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) sharply increased over the last two decades. It is often pointed out that cross-border capital reallocation is partly the result of financial liberalization policies, government policies and regional agreements. In this paper, we identify some of the...

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Monetary policy transmission in segmented markets

Eisenschmidt, Jens; Ma, Yiming; Zhang, Anthony Lee - 2022

We show that dealer market power impedes the pass-through of monetary policy in repo markets, which is an important first stage of monetary policy transmission. In the European repo market, most participants do not have access to trade on centralized exchanges. Rather, they rely on OTC...

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The economic impact of merger control : what is special about banking?

Carletti, Elena (contributor); Hartmann, Philipp (contributor) - 2007

-oriented regime for merger control increases banks' stock prices, whereas it decreases those of non-financial firms. Moreover, bank … merger targets become more profitable and larger. A major determinant of the positive bank returns, after controlling inter … institutional setup for supervisory bank merger reviews. Thus strengthening competition policy in banking may generate positive …

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Growth strategies and value creation : what works best for stock exchanges?

Hasan, Iftekhar; Schmiedel, Heiko; Song, Liang - 2010

protection, accounting standards and capital market development in the partner exchange's country, the higher the merger and …

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Financial exposure and bank mergers : micro and macro evidence from the EU

Lebastard, Laura - 2022

This paper studies for the first time the links between interbank liability and equity markets (financial exposure), and mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the European banking sector, both at the micro and macro level. Using a binary logit model, the paper first examines - at the micro level -...

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Financial returns, sentiment and market volatility : a dynamic assessment

Borgioli, Stefano; Gallo, Giampiero M.; Ongari, Chiara - 2024

In 1936, John Maynard Keynes proposed that emotions and instincts are pivotal in decision-making, particularly for investors. Both positive and negative moods can influence judgments and decisions, extending to economic and financial choices. Intuitions, emotional states, and biases...

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Country and sector-specific spillover effects in the euro area, the United States and Japan

Kaltenhaeuser, Bernd - 2003

Within a two-step GARCH framework we explore the linkages between equity returns of ten sectors in the euro area, the United States and Japan, respectively. Our estimation framework allows a distinction to be made between spillover effects originating from one of the three currency areas and...

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Finance and growth in the EU

De Ávila, Diego Romero - 2003

This paper analyses the link between finance and growth by studying the effect that the process of financial deregulation and harmonisation of banking laws at the EU level has brought about on growth over the last 40 years. Our main findings point to the existence of a positive long-run growth...

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