investigate the characteristics of bank financial statements before the start of the global crisis, which helps to explain the … a sample period, are crucially important for corporate governance and bank performance. The results from our analysis …-based monitoring of banks M&As in terms of higher quality financial reporting is negatively linked with bank performance, whereas local …

This paper analyzes the determinants of bank mergers and acquisitions (M&As) from a bank-level perspective. The main … decision of merging, including the size of the bank, profitability, lending activities, liquidity, bank concentration, banking …

; real sector ; merger and acquisition ; banks ; oil and gas ; financial ratio analysis ; paired "t" test …

assumptions, e.g. connectivity, contagion channel and the merger process, on different static and dynamic stability measures. We … systems. Our main finding is that merger activities can stabilize or destabilize the modelled financial network, depending on … various details such as the connectivity of the network and the assumed merger process. Merger activities can increase …

,300 mergers that took place between 1978 and 2001 to analyse the determinants of international bank mergers. We test the extent to … which information costs and regulations hold back merger activity. Our results suggest that banks operating in more … regulated environments are less likely to be the targets of international bank mergers. Hence, the lifting of regulations can …