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 …

home country prudential supervisors and deposit insurance funding systems were stricter than the target‘s. For target banks …

assets to complement the IT capital. The investment model is estimated using data from Spanish banks on assets of different …

A remarkable fact of the mushrooming remittances market is the absence of commercial banks as relevant players …'s) due to migrants' mistrust to banks, which hinders the access of banks to the market. Altruism compounded with a non …-competitive market allows MTO's to set excessively high remittance fees and to attain monopolistic rents. The model shows that banks can …

. At the same time, we compare this aspect of Japanese corporate governance with the shareholdings of banks in the same … group of firms. Our results show that the equity investments of financial investors — institutional investors and banks — in … listed on the Tokyo and Osaka Stock Exchanges, with banks being the largest group of these financial investors. Further …