financial crisis of the 20th century - the Great Depression. Using balance-sheet and systemic risk measures at the bank level …, we build an econometric model with incidental truncation that jointly considers bank survival, the type of bank closure … (consolidations, absorption, and failures), and changes to bank risk. Despite roughly 9,000 bank closures, risk did not leave the …

We examine the effects of bank merger and local market characteristics on local small business lending. Mergers … number of small firms. Post-merger activity supports banks expanding on their acquisition strategy decisions. The findings … one-size-fits-all policy solutions for bank mergers may not produce common local outcomes …

banks in individual EU countries help to explain the nature of cross-border merger activity. If they wish to protect …

one large, universal bank remained. We explore the extent to which that merger resulted in monopoly rents for the combined …The merger of Fleet and BankBoston in September 1999 resulted in a regional New England lending market in which only … merger, Fleet and BankBoston charged unusually low loan interest rates, reflecting their ability to realize economies of …

Previous studies of event returns surrounding bank mergers show that banks gain value in megamergers and additional …

merge and post-merger value creation and synergies? We compile comprehensive information on U.S. bank acquisitions from 1986 …