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-merger financial performance. We find that, on average, bank mergers in the European Union resulted in improved return on capital. By …
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assess the relative importance of cross-border bank spillovers as compared to domestic bank spillovers. The results suggest …
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In this study we apply cluster analysis techniques, including a novel smoothing method, to detect some basic patterns and trends in the euro area banking sector in terms of the degree of homogeneity of countries. We find that in the period 1998-2004 the banking sectors in the euro area countries...
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expected return news component - as opposed to the bank-specific news, typically assumed to be incorporated in the cash …
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This paper empirically investigates the extent to which the financial linkages of Latin American banks with the exterior are influenced by political risk and deposit dollarisation. We find that the sum of banks’ foreign assets and liabilities is a function of risk-return considerations and...
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approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … ignores differences in bank product quality and design, as well as the attractiveness of innovations. We measure competition …
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-oriented regime for merger control increases banks’ stock prices, whereas it decreases those of non-financial firms. Moreover, bank … merger targets become more profitable and larger. A major determinant of the positive bank returns, after controlling inter … alia for the general quality of institutions and individual bank characteristics, is the opaqueness that characterizes the …
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A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization … indeed increases bank efficiency. Second, building on these results, we examine the relation between the Boone indicator … bank soundness. We find evidence that competition robustly increases bank soundness, via the efficiency channel. …
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This paper analyzes the effects of bank mergers on bank firm relationships. Using matched bank-firm level data, I find … positive effects of mergers for borrowers that continue the lending relationship with the consolidated bank. On average …
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