Hagendorff, Jens; Hernando, Ignacio; Nieto, Maria J.; … - 2010
acquiring banks value profitable, high-growth, and low-risk targets. We also find that the strength of bank regulation and … regimes and stronger deposit insurance schemes lower the takeover premiums paid by acquiring banks. This result, presumably in … supervision and of deposit insurance regimes in Europe has measurable effects on takeover pricing. Stricter bank regulatory …