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 …

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 …

bank efficiency and performance for a sample of 22 EU countries over 2000–2008. In the first stage of the analysis we … regulatory policies such as private sector monitoring and restricting bank activities can result in higher bank inefficiency … powers (interventionist supervisory and regulatory policies) on bank efficiency are more pronounced in countries with higher …

This paper empirically examines the effect of bank’s revenue diversification across different activities on the stock … increasing non-interest income share on the franchise values of banks, while there is no strong evidence that it reduce bank … risk, idiosyncratic risk, and total risk). Furthermore, we find that the effects of bank’s revenue diversification on …

This article analyzes the profitability of the banks in six European countries between 1994 and 1997. We deal with the … link between profitability and certain external and interns' determinants of European banking system. Following a …

paper we concentrate on the integration process of European bank share prices. We develop a parsimonious model that is able … larger banks in Europe has increased substantially over this period, whereas the correlation between smaller banks has become …