In our sample of 1,937 US mergers (1995 to 2011), 8.4 percent of all targets received oers with negative premiums where …

mergers have occurred are more likely than other banks to deny credit to small business loan applicants. However, this … that banking consolidation has reduced the availability of credit to small businesses. We find that banks in markets where … one set of banks, those in the process of acquiring other banks, are less likely to deny credit to small businesses. These …

value and volatility of bank’s assets for a random sample of 13 Public and 8 Private sector banks in India over the period … value of bank’s assets obtained from Black-Scholes-Merton is characteristically below its enterprise value since market … the necessity of resilience of banks towards risks and sudden financial shocks. The riskiness of banks assets and its …

The ability to predict bank failure has become much more important since the mortgage foreclosure crisis began in 2007 …, as well as several local or national economic variables to produce a model that is robust enough to forecast bank failure … for the entire commercial bank industry in the United States. This model is able to predict failure (survival) accurately …

Recent financial crises and especially large corporate bankruptcies, have led bank managements and financial … authorities to follow and monitor both financial and real sector risks, and to focus on firm failures. Bank of International … Settlements, has therefore, taken the decision to include the necessity for banks to employ internal rating systems among BASEL II …

for different experiments. I analyse the effects of connectivity, balance sheet and network positions of banks, and … on the asset sides of banks, I also introduce a shock hitting several banks at the same time. This study may be useful …

regarding the financial management of local governments and on data from banks. Until 2011, the repayment of the bonds issued … managed by the banks. The comprehensive restructuring of the local government system as a whole and a further changing of debt …