importantcatalyst for bank consolidation in Europe. In order to assessthe public policy issues surrounding bank mergers, this … paperanalyzes the efficiency effects of 52 horizontal bank mergersover the period 1994-1998, i.e. the period immediately …

competition/performance and financia1 sector openness (meaning foreign bank access to domestic markets), and between growth and …

of interests can lead the political majority to support bank over equity dominance. As shareholdings by the median voters …

competitive environment affect bank monitoring choices and the effectiveness of capital regulation? Our approach deviates from the …

century (Rajan and Zingales, 2003), when some financially verydeveloped countries moved towards bank or state control as a …

companies it is less likely that the chairperson of the supervisory board is a former executive of the same bank. Over time …

nationwide, regarding different outreach indicators. At the federal state level, bank outreach shows South-North and West …-East gaps. Combining regional and bank data at the district level for 2005, we examine the determinants of geographic and … share of elder people and bank size in a region. Because of their public mission to serve all regions, public savings banks …