goal of this paper is to investigate the change in operating performance, efficiency, and value addition of US bank mergers … adjusted performance more than product focused mergers. The efficiency or profitability of targets have either a positive or no … examine the factors that have significant impact on changes in bank performance. Our empirical results lead to the conclusion …

-step procedure: we first estimate bank-level cost efficiency scores for a large sample of Italian banks in the period 1993-2013 by … Cooperativo, BCCs) and try to assess whether those mergers were efficiency-enhancing. For the purpose, we employ a two … means of a stochastic frontier approach, then we try to explain the estimated BCCs' cost efficiency with a set of merger …

This paper investigates the impact of corporate governance on bank efficiency across a sample of 139 commercial banks … implementing rigorous corporate governance structures is associated with higher costs for banks and a lower level of efficiency …, tight risk management is associated with both higher cost and technical efficiency for more capitalized banks, while rigid …

example, we find that bank ownership reduces the efficiency of bank lending and harms investment efficiency for state …This study investigates the effect of bank ownership on lending and firm investment efficiencies to give reasons for … the mixed evidence that exists on the impact of bank ownership on firm performance. Using China's listed firms as an …

the trend of gender diversity without proper evaluation of executives’ skills could damage bank efficiency. Finally, this …

efficiency of individual banks, are also of great importance to profitability (proxied by ROA and ROE ratios) of banking sectors …This paper investigates the relevance of banking sector specific and macroeconomic determinants of profitability of 21 …. Our results suggest that banking sector specific determinants affect the efficiency of banks in anticipated way …

best performer); and (iii) analysis of individual cases of M&As in terms of changes in bank costs and profitability …This paper studies the impact of recent mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on the cost and profit efficiency of banks in … their dispersion for bank groups according to their size; (ii) calculation of cost and profit inefficiency (relative to the …

decades by deep changes, mainly due to the new applicable bank legislation, to a progressive European integration, and the …