amendments. We provide a new series for the off-balance- sheet activities of Canadian banks that measures the non-interest income … of banks as a credit equivalent. Despite the market-oriented trend, this series combined with our data reveal a healthy … trend in banks activities: thanks to the amendments, financial institutions are simply closer to the markets. However, our …

This paper provides new evidence on the effects of bank capital requirements in Indonesia. In investigating the impact … of bank capital requirements, we set up a simple model of the banking firm which can detect the impact of capital … regulation on banks’ behaviour as well as having possible effects on the economy. In estimation, we use monthly panel data of all …

We analyse co-movements in the fragility of EU banks and verify to which extent such co-movements have increased in … measure of co-movements in bank risk by means of a dynamic factor model, which allows to decompose an indicator of bank … fragility, the Distance-to-Default, into three main components: an EU- wide, a country-specific and a bank-level idiosyncratic …

in risk to the banking sector. This questions the ''innocence'' of the bank owners in the crisis that have often followed … ambiguous. Then we test empirically the propositions resulting from this model using data of 73 banks (some of which may have … become technically insolvent) from Greece, Malaysia, Mexico, Taiwan and Thailand. The tests tend to support the conclusions …

firms. Supply-side reductions resulted from the merger between two big banks and changes in credit risk management at major …The present paper investigates the number of bank relationships of small and medium-sized enterprises in Switzerland … using survey data from 1996 and 2002. We differentiate between overall bank relationships and lending relationships and …

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate two new anti-merger instruments, innovation markets and unilateral effects, on … then discuss each anti-merger instrument, how it has been applied in specific cases, and how it accords with underlying … empirical bases of applying unilateral effects and innovation markets to merger investigations. …

This paper is an attempt to evaluate the impact of Mergers on the performance of the companies. Theoretically it is … assumed that Mergers improves the performance of the company due to increased market power, Synergy impact and various other … were done mostly in the US and other European countries. I evaluate the impact of Mergers on Indian companies through a …

We examine theoretically and experimentally two countervailing effects of collusion and symmetric mergers among bidders …

This article identifies whether top managers in banks’ parent companies are highly involved in the design of strategy … and examines how management styles influence (or reflect influences) on diversification decisions within bank markets … (including the role of information and telecommunication technologies in the design and implementation of banks’ diversification …