This paper analyzes the contagion effects associated with the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and identifies bank … held-to-maturity securities, bank size, and cash holdings had a significant impact, while better-quality assets or holdings … rate hikes nor risks linked to bank size. While mid-sized banks experienced particular stress immediately after the SVB …

Using count data on the number of bank failures in US states during the 1960 to 2006 period, this paper endeavors to … instruments to absorb potential endogeneity between the number of bank failures and economic and regulatory conditions. Results … suggest that bank failures are not merely self-fulfilling prophecies but relate systematically to inflation as well as to …

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 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 …

origin are significantly less likely to have bank accounts in the U.S. This finding is robust to including important …