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The Effect of Mergers and Acquisitions on Bank Performance in Egypt
Badreldin, Ahmed Mohamed; Kalhöfer, Christian - 2021
Recent economic reforms in Egypt have significantly improved its macroeconomic indicators and financial sector. Banks have witnessed significant merger and acquisition activity as a result of these reforms in attempts to privatize and strengthen the banking sector. This study measures the...
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Corporate Governance and Expected Stock Returns : Evidence from Germany
Drobetz, Wolfgang; Schillhofer, Andreas; Zimmermann, Heinz - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich>; … - 2003
Recent empirical work shows that a better legal environment leads to lowerexpected rates of return in an international cross-section of countries. Thispaper investigates whether differences in firm-specific corporate governancealso help to explain expected returns in a cross-section of firms...
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Ein Corporate Governance Ratingfür deutsche Publikumsgesellschaft
Drobetz, Wolfgang; Schillhofer, Andreas; Zimmermann, Heinz - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich>; … - 2003
Die aktuelle Corporate Governance Literatur stützt die verbreitete Hypothe-se, dass sicht „gute“ Corporate Governance durch eine höhere Unterneh-mensbewertung manifestiert. Die Mehrzahl der empirischen Studien unter-sucht jedoch nur ausgewählte Corporate Governance Mechanismen...
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Is Board Size an Independent Corporate Governance Mechanism?
Beiner, Stefan; Drobetz, Wolfgang; Schmid, Frank; … - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich>; …
Using a comprehensive set of listed Swiss companies, our findings suggestthat the size of the board of directors is an independent control mechanism.However, in contrast to previous studies, we do not find a significant rela-tionship between board size and firm performance. This suggests that...
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Corporate Governance, Unternehmensbewertung und Wettbewerb - eine Untersuchung für die Schweiz
Beiner, Stefan; Drobetz, Wolfgang; Schmid, Markus M.; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2004
Einleitung: In der zweiten Hälfte der neunziger Jahre ist die Verbesserung der CorporateGovernance börsennotierter Gesellschaften zu einem intensiv diskutiertenThema geworden. Im Unterschied zu früheren Debatten, wie sie vor etwazwanzig Jahren anlässlich der Arbeit von Jensen/Meckling (1976)...
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Corporate Governance and Expected Stock Returns : Evidence from Germany
Drobetz, Wolfgang; Schillhofer, Andreas; Zimmermann, Heinz - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2003
Recent empirical work shows that a better legal environment leads to lowerexpected rates of return in an international cross-section of countries. Thispaper investigates whether differences in firm-specific corporate governancealso help to explain expected returns in a cross-section of firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863002
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Detecting Informed Trading Activities in the OptionsMarkets
Chesney, Marc; Crameri, Remo; Mancini, Loriano - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2009
This paper presents a new method to detect informed trading activities in the options markets.An option trade is identified as informed when it is characterized by an unusual largeincrement in open interest and volume, induces large gains, and is not hedged in the stock market.For the period...
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Dynamic Capital Structure under ManagerialEntrenchment:Evidence from a Structural Estimation
Morellec, Erwan; Nikolov, Boris; Schürhoff, Norman - National Centre of Competence in ResearchFinancial … - 2008
This paper examines the impact of agency conicts on corporate nancing decisions. Werst build a dynamic contingent claims model in which nancing policy results from a trade-obetween tax benets, contracting frictions, and agency conicts. In our setting, partially-entrenched managers set the rms'...
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Financing and Takeovers
Morellec, Erwan; Zhdanov, Alexei - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2006
This paper analyzes the interaction between financial leverage and takeover activity. We develop a dynamic model of …, and takeover terms, in which the bidder with the lowest leverage wins the takeover contest. Based on the resulting … bidder is below the industry average and that acquirers should lever up after the takeover consummation. The model also …
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Determinants of domestic and cross-border bank acquisitions in the European Union
Hernando, Ignacio; Nieto, María J.; Wall, Larry D. - 2008
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...
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