We find that stricter merger control legislation increases abnormal announcement returns of targets in bank mergers by …

branch numbers across countries and the opening and closing of branches, bank fragility and consolidation are surprisingly at … important role than internal processing technology. General bank level factors are more important than local internet access …. Bank internal use of technology appears to be more relevant than use of technology by competitors. While large banks rely …

comprehensive sample that combines an original set of bank-specific bailout events with balance sheets of key affected and non …