to an executive board is an outsider (an individual without previous employment at the bank) compared to being an insider …

financial institutions. First, we establish that age, gender, and education jointly affect the variability of bank performance …

financial institutions. First, we establish that age, gender, and education jointly affect the variability of bank performance …

problems involved. In this study, we analyze the effect of German bank mergers in the period 1995-2000 on banks' profitability …

German banks experienced a merger wave throughout the 1990s. However, the success of bank mergers remains a continuous …

different banks as being best or worst performers. Our main conclusion is that efficiency studies in general and bank efficiency …

The inability of most bank merger studies to control for hidden bailouts may lead to biased results. In this study, we … employ a unique data set of approximately 1,000 mergers to analyze the determinants of bank mergers. We use data on the …

Outright bank failures without prior indication of financial instability are very rare. Supervisory authorities monitor … regarded as troubled to varying degrees before outright closure. But to our knowledge virtually all studies that predict bank … failures neglect the ordinal nature of bank distress. Exploiting the distress database of the Deutsche Bundesbank we …