Foreign Banks have engendered followers and detractors in each host dispensation and in their home countries. After the recent bank crisis they continue increasing their presence in Asian and Emerging markets (Claessens and Horens, 2014), yet activity in Markets for Corporate Control has been...

The paper aims to recover the critical role of banks in defining the relationship between Financial Development and growth. We hypothesize that Banks can positively motivate templatized GDP growth. A System GMM estimation of GDP growth in a sample of high growth emerging markets from Asia...

We analyze 188 bank mergers and acquisitions from the 2005-2016 period in Asia and report significant Positive Abnormal Returns for acquirers in both the crises and post crisis periods. Market model event studies provide a natural setting to tackle problems of endogeneity. Acquirers seem to be...

We analyze our assertion of a late blooming continuous crisis incidence in Asia in parametric and semi parametric joint distributions implied by the commonly tested Archimedean Copula in Conditional Score models (SGASC/DCS) and use GARCH DCC MIDAS constructions to measure time varying parameters...