This paper examines the consequences of Chinese regulators deviating from a long-standing full bailout policy in addressing the distress of a city-level commercial bank. This policy shift led to a persistent widening of credit spreads and a significant decline in funding ratios for negotiable...

German banks experienced a merger wave throughout the 1990s. However, the success of bank mergers remains a continuous matter of debate. In this paper we suggest a taxonomy as how to evaluate post-merger performance on the basis of cost efficiency (CE). We categorise mergers a success that...

We study the effect of board governance in state-owned and private banks by undertaking a study of commercial banks in India that has both bank groups. Covering a ten-year period from 2003 to 2012 that witnessed a large number of governance reforms in India, the results of our empirical analysis...

On 16th November 2009, SUERF, CEPS and the Belgian Financial Forum coorganized a conference "Crisis management at cross-roads" in Brussels. All papers in the present volume are based on contributions at the conference and the SUERF Annual Lecture which followed the event.

We address two questions: (i) Are bank capital structure and value correlated in the cross section, and if so, how? (ii) If bank capital does affect bank value, how are the components of bank value affected by capital? We first develop a dynamic model with a dissipative cost of bank capital that...

Objective: The aim of this paper is to identify basic relationships between intellectual capital efficiency in banks, their corporate governance, and their financial performance. Examining these relationships seems justified as up to now the topic has been investigated relatively rarely....

Wird durch M&A-Transaktionen in der europäischen Bankenindustrie Shareholder Value generiert? Vor dem Hintergrund des beschriebenen scheinbaren Widerspruchs zwischen starker und jüngst erneut zunehmender M&A-Tätigkeit in der Bankenindustrie einerseits und der auf Basis der Forschung...

Gewinnstrukturbeziehungen und Fusionen im europäischen Bankensektor: Eine empirische Untersuchung Die empirische Forschung liefert den Beweis für eine Beziehung zwischen Marktstrukturen und Rentabilität im europäischen Bankensektor. In diesem Beitrag werden diverse Marktmacht- und...

Wird durch M&A-Transaktionen in der europäischen Bankenindustrie Shareholder Value generiert? Vor dem Hintergrund des scheinbaren Widerspruchs zwischen starker und jüngst erneut zunehmender M&A-Tätigkeit in der Bankenindustrie einerseits und der auf Basis der Forschung dokumentierten...