-style takeover defences, such as poison pills and staggered boards, but allows voting caps and pyramiding in their stead. Various … investors and mandatory takeover bids …

one large, universal bank remained. We explore the extent to which that merger resulted in monopoly rents for the combined …

more bank mergers are subjected to higher interest rates, diminished local construction, lower prices, an influx of poorer … findings using state branching deregulation to instrument for bank competition …

merge and post-merger value creation and synergies? We compile comprehensive information on U.S. bank acquisitions from 1986 …

The prevalence of shirking within a large Italian bank appears to be characterized by significant regional …

We use exogenous variation in the degree of restrictions to bank competition across Italian provinces to study both the … effects of bank regulation and the impact of deregulation. We find that where entry was more restricted the cost of credit was … increase in bad loans. In provinces where restrictions to bank competition were most severe, the proportion of bad loans after …

disentangle loan supply from loan demand shift in the bank lending channel' literature. The results, derived from a sample of … the literature for Italy, interest rates on shortterm lending of liquid and well-capitalized banks react less to a … in the pass-through on the interest rate on current accounts depends mainly on banks' liability structure. Bank's size is …