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...

The inability of most bank merger studies to control for hidden bailouts may lead to biased results. In this study, we employ a unique data set of approximately 1,000 mergers to analyze the determinants of bank mergers. We use data on the regulatory intervention history to distinguish between...

In this paper, we show the importance of accounting for heterogeneity among sample firms in stochastic frontier analysis. For a fairly homogenous sample of German savings and cooperative banks, we analyze how alternative theoretical assumptions regarding the nature of heterogeneity can be...

This paper analyzes capital market reactions to international bank M&A. We investigate combined stock return patterns of targets, bidders, and their peers upon takeover announcement, and closing or withdrawal. We distinguish five common M&A hypotheses and relate characteristic and mutually...

This study documents economically meaningful and persistent financial advisor fixed effects in target firms' abnormal stock returns shortly prior to takeover announcements.Additional difference-in-differences analyses suggest that advisors are associated with lower pre-bid stock returns after...

The objective of the paper is to analyse the influence of information about economic and financial problems of strategic shareholders upon the market value of commercial banks operating in the Polish banking sector. The analysis included fourteen such cases from the years 2007 - 2014. The...

Animosity towards the business of finance is ancient and persistent. As finance creates intangible value, its contribution is invisible to many observers, but the proposed remedy - increased statutory regulation - may heighten, rather than mitigate the exposure of taxpayers and households to...