Although domestic mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the financial services industry have increased steadily over the past two decades, international M&As were relatively rare until recently. This paper uses a novel dataset of over 2,300 mergers that took place between 1978 and 2001 to analyse...

"We hypothesize that banks become better able to manage acquisitions, and investors become better able to value those acquisitions, as these parties "learn-by-observing" information that spills-over from previous bank M&As. We find evidence consistent with these hypotheses for 216 M&As of large,...