"This paper looks at the role of both commercial and investment banks in providing merger advisory services. In this … investment banks. In their dual role as lenders and advisors to firms that are the target or the acquirer in a merger, banks can … advisors to acquirers. In particular, the target earns higher abnormal returns when the target's own bank certifies the (more …

important in merger arbitrage, where deal failure is a key risk. In this paper, I propose a dynamic asset pricing model that … addition, the model accurately predicts that merger arbitrage exhibits low volatility and a large Sharpe ratio when deals are …

the relationship between board structure (size and composition) and bank performance, as well as some determinants of … board structure. We document that mergers and acquisitions activity influences bank board composition, and we provide new … evidence that organizational structure is significantly related to bank board size. We argue that these factors may explain why …

We address two questions: (i) Are bank capital structure and value correlated in the cross section, and if so, how? (ii …) If bank capital does affect bank value, how are the components of bank value affected by capital? We first develop a … dynamic model with a dissipative cost of bank capital that is traded off against the benefits of capital: strengthened …

Using data from bank holding company regulatory reports, we examine the relationshipbetween stock repurchases and … financial performance for a large sample of bank holding companies over the years 1987 to 1998. The primary result is that … be driven primarily by bank holding companies with publicly traded stock, especially those companies whose stock is …

We investigate how bank migration across state lines over the last quarter century has affected the size and covariance …

Bank capital requirements are based on a mix of market values and book values. We investigate the effects of a policy … banking organizations. Our analysis is based on security-level data on individual bank portfolios matched to bond …