Most bank efficiency studies that use stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) employ each bank's own implicit input price …

The inability of most bank merger studies to control for hidden bailouts may lead to biased results. In this study, we … employ a unique data set of approximately 1,000 mergers to analyze the determinants of bank mergers. We use data on the …

German banks experienced a merger wave throughout the 1990s. However, the success of bank mergers remains a continuous …

different banks as being best or worst performers. Our main conclusion is that efficiency studies in general and bank efficiency …

parametric methods. Thus, the implicit assumption of serial independence of bank production in most methods has an important …

Outright bank failures without prior indication of financial instability are very rare. Supervisory authorities monitor … regarded as troubled to varying degrees before outright closure. But to our knowledge virtually all studies that predict bank … failures neglect the ordinal nature of bank distress. Exploiting the distress database of the Deutsche Bundesbank we …

multiple technology regimes and group membership probabilities. The latter are conditioned on six bank traits of German banks …. Wir ermitteln die Wahrscheinlichkeit der Gruppenzugehörigkeit (GZW) je Bank in Abhängigkeit von sechs individuellen …