that banking consolidation has reduced the availability of credit to small businesses. We find that banks in markets where … results suggest that consolidation in the banking industry may have enhanced rather than restricted the availability of credit …

In this study, we examine unsuccessful takeover attempts for new evidence on whether mergers create or destroy value … literature on signaling by investigating whether a takeover attempt signals investors about the quality of firm management as … partially, but not completely, reversed by termination announcement returns, evidence that the merger proposal itself contains …

collective efforts, Islamic banking is now recognized by IMF,World Bank and Basel Committee. While, 27 Muslim countries including …The purpose of this exploratory and to some extent descriptive analysis is to highlight the Islamic banking & finance … theory, and to explain the practical disparity all over the Muslim Umma along with commonalities of Islamic banking in them …

the banking segment (retail versus wholesale banking) the respective bank operates in. Additionally the thesis offers a …The ongoing globalisation has not stopped short of the banking sector. From a political point of view wide voiced … concerns about the effect of such banking globalisation have arisen. From a scientific perspective, one of the open points left …

geographies, and capitalising on economies of scale etc. India has emerged as one of the top countries with respect to merger and … acquiring firms by examining some pre- merger and post-merger financial ratios of these firms and to see the differences in the … pre merger and post merger ratios of the firms that go for domestic acquisitions and the firms that go for the …

The study examines the value creation of Merger and Acquisition (M&A) deals in European Banking from 1990-2004. This is …

This paper provides event study window analysis of pre- and post-merger bank performance in Singapore by employing … the merger has not resulted in a higher profitability of Singaporean banking groups post-merger, which could be attributed … to the higher costs incurred. However, the merger has resulted in higher Singaporean banking groups’ mean overall …

studying the relationship between international terms of trade and domestic income distributions of the exporting countries … the situation of the underdeveloped world today. I shall discuss the implications of these results about the question of … the transmission of the growth from the North to the South through international markets, both through trade and through …