strengthen the banking sector. This study measures the performance of Egyptian banks that have undergone mergers or acquisitions … indicate that not all banks that have undergone deals of mergers or acquisitions have shown significant improvements in … performed yielding the same results. It was concluded that mergers and acquisitions have not had a clear effect on the …

scale required to promote higher growth and boost employment. Among banks the public sector banks (PSBs) are burdened with …

We analyze the takeover premiums paid for a sample of European bank mergers between 1997 and 2007. We find that … acquiring banks value profitable, high-growth, and low-risk targets. We also find that the strength of bank regulation and … supervision and of deposit insurance regimes in Europe has measurable effects on takeover pricing. Stricter bank regulatory …

This paper studies the impact of European bank mergers and acquisitions on changes in key safety and soundness measures … home country prudential supervisors and deposit insurance funding systems were stricter than the target's. For target banks …

at the cost of suppressing the role of banks as lenders. A Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) could provide safe money … to be taken off the balance sheet of banks and into the balance sheet of the central bank, thereby removing significant … equity, and no losses or defaults by individual banks or borrowers can ever dent it or weaken the central bank's capital …

This paper analyzes the determinants of bank acquisitions both within and across 25 members of the European Union (EU …-25) during the period 1997-2004. Our results suggest that poorly managed banks (those with a high cost-to-income ratio …) and larger banks are more likely to be acquired by other banks in the same country. The probability of being a target in a …

case of free riding. As the number of lending banks grows, the chance of meeting again a bank and of being punished for …. We develop a repeated game in which banks come across each other frequently, allowing them to threaten a punishment in … restructuring probability increases with the number of banks up to a threshold - three banks - beyond which coordination problems …

We show that U.S. banks do not engage in zombie lending to firms of deteriorating profitability, irrespective of … for banks and nonbanks, and an empirical setting with quasirandom shocks to firm profitability. Although credit migrates … from banks to nonbanks, zombie firms file for bankruptcy at an elevated rate, suggesting that nonbanks' zombie lending does …

current bank activities as somehow appropriate and trying to eliminate only the worst excesses of the 2000s. Hyman Minsky … system is to promote the capital development of the economy. By this he did not simply mean that banks should finance …