Using data from bank holding company regulatory reports, we examine the relationshipbetween stock repurchases and … financial performance for a large sample of bank holding companies over the years 1987 to 1998. The primary result is that … be driven primarily by bank holding companies with publicly traded stock, especially those companies whose stock is …

advisors to acquirers. In particular, the target earns higher abnormal returns when the target's own bank certifies the (more …. Second, acquirers predominantly use commercial bank advisors to obtain access to bank loans that may be used to finance the …. Moreover, the advising bank's recommendations may be distorted by considerations related to credit exposure incurred in both …

In moral hazard models, bank shareholders have incentives to transfer wealth from the deposit insurer - that is … value, and a risk measure, this paper develops a semi-parametric model for estimating the critical level of bank risk at …