-performing loans, the reduction of banks operating in Greece due to mergers and acquisitions, bank bankruptcy and withdrawal of foreign … the growth of number of banks, banking network and number of employees. The application of the austerity program in Greece … banks. All these resulted in Greece having the most concentrated banking market in the Eurozone. The reduction of the number …

-performing loans, the reduction of banks operating in Greece due to mergers and acquisitions, bank bankruptcy and withdrawal of foreign … the growth of number of banks, banking network and number of employees. The application of the austerity program in Greece … banks. All these resulted in Greece having the most concentrated banking market in the Eurozone. The reduction of the number …

29 banks. The results show that inelasticity of deposit supply is a major determinant of interest spread whereas industry … concentration has no significant influence on interest spread. One reason for inelasticity of deposits supply to the banks is the … for the savers. Given the adverse implications of banking mergers for a competitive environment, we argue that to maintain …

of 29 banks. The results show that inelasticity of deposit supply is a major determinant of interest spread whereas … banks is the absence of alternate options for the savers. The on-going merger wave in the banking industry will further … limit the options for the savers. Given the adverse implications of banking mergers for a competitive environment, we argue …

of 29 banks. The results show that the share of interest-insensitive deposits in total bank deposits is a key determinant …

This article demonstrates that the risk profile of acquiring banks’ common stock changes in the aftermath of a merger … relatively high even two years afterwards. This corroborates the view that the newly consolidated big banks resulting from … mergers entail higher systematic risk and, instead of providing risk diversification to shareholders, exhibit greater …

We study advertising at the brand level in a sample of corporate acquisitions. New owners display an elevated … investing at an elevated level and when the new owner has displayed past restraint in their investment spending activities …

We analyze the takeover premiums paid for a sample of European bank mergers between 1997 and 2007. We find that … acquiring banks value profitable, high-growth, and low-risk targets. We also find that the strength of bank regulation and … regimes and stronger deposit insurance schemes lower the takeover premiums paid by acquiring banks. This result, presumably in …

This paper studies the impact of European bank mergers and acquisitions on changes in key safety and soundness measures … home country prudential supervisors and deposit insurance funding systems were stricter than the target's. For target banks …

interlocking. We find that approximately half the banks had at least one connection with another bank through director interlocking …, and that a bank that had connections with other banks was less likely to fail than a bank without a network. The quality … with the profitability of the connected banks. On the other hand, there is no strong evidence of financial contagion …