James (1987) and Lummer and McConnell (1989) find that during the 1970s and 1980s the market responded positively to announcements of bank lending agreements. However, many of the advantages associated with bank lending relationships have largely disappeared since the 1980s due to financial...

We provide evidence on operating performance changes at a sample of U.S. banks acquired by non-U.S. banking organizations over the 1980-2001 period. Our sample allows us to compare directly the preacquisition performance of the targets with their postacquisition performance, a comparison that...