This paper tests a new hypothesis that bank managers issue public debt, at least in part, to convey positive, private … returns, bond issuance, and balance sheet data for U.S. bank holding companies. The results add to our understanding of market … discipline in monitoring bank holding companies and also inform upon how proposed regulatory requirements that banking …

We identify 72 bank Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As), in which US banks acquired other financial institutions. We focus … examine: value generation to bank shareholders; value implications on bank shareholders according to rival banks' M …-performing bank creates value through M&A. …

This research studies why commercial banks in the USA failed in the recent financial crisis from the aspect of risk …

the USA using publicly disclosed information from their financial statements on a four-year rolling window. In our … bank default forecasting. …

default probabilities of listed corporate entities in ten European countries, and the USA, covering the recent global …

Skilled Migration: A Sign of Europe's Divide or Integration? examines the trends, determinants, and impacts of …

extending maternity, paternity and parental leave and benefit policies globally and in Europe, highlights new policies and …

Governments play a critical role in the economies of Europe and Central Asia, where government expenditures are close …

that a branching strategy is a more effective strategy in enhancing a bank's profitability while a representative office … or representative office on the parent bank performance of 45 European banks during 2000–2007. We use breadth and depth … to proxy for the level of multinationality in measuring a parent bank performance. We find that for foreign expansion as …