analyzed from this perspective. Government bond regulation is argued to necessarily depart from ordinary approaches also … discusses repo and short-selling regulation in government bond markets. The atypical market structure and the multi … competition, integrative infrastructure and basic systemic protections as over-arching principles for regulation is consistent …

This paper studies the impact of European bank mergers and acquisitions on changes in key safety and soundness measures …

acquiring banks value profitable, high-growth and low risk targets. We also find that the strength of bank regulation and …We analyze the takeover premiums paid for a sample of European bank mergers between 1997 and 2007. We find that … supervision as well as deposit insurance regimes in Europe have measurable effects on takeover pricing. Stricter bank regulatory …

and more or less risk sensitivity in capital requirements. Following the approach in Barth et al. (2004, 2006, 2008) we … their effect on banks' risk, capital, efficiency and cost. We show that more stringency and more risk sensitivity in … regulation not always result in a trade off between efficiency and solvency: the impact depends on the area of national …

to make discretionary decisions within the PCA framework as soon as a bank of a cross border banking group falls below … requires the bank to be resolved. …

This paper analyzes the determinants of bank acquisitions both within and across countries in the EU-25 over the period … border bank acquisitions only if compared to the median of the market. Larger banks are more likely to be acquired by other … banks in the same country. The probability of being acquired by another bank in the same market is larger for banks that are …

information on financial institutions’ risk profiles; financial institutions’ creditors must consider themselves at risk; and the …