on a European level. Following De Nicolo and Kwast (2001), mean rolling-window correlations between bank stock returns …

conditional correlations between European bank stock indices. These correlations are used as an indication for the …

distributed between inventors and investors. As a result, bank lending for firm R&D has been rare. However, firms can signal the … potential to alter the risk assessment of the firm's main bank. Additionally, we explore heterogeneities in these risk … assessments arising from the industry level and the main bank's portfolio. We test our theoretical predictions for a sample of …

In 2005, the President of the Bank of Italy blocked the cross-border acquisition of two Italian banks for ?prudential … strength of the supervisory review process of bank M&A. The main source of information to construct these indices is a …

bank. The results suggest that capital requirements may only be of second-order importance for banks? capital structures …

taking place for retail banking. Data on cross-border retail bank flows, cross-border bank mergers and the law of one price … reveal no evidence of integration in retail banking. This paper shows that the previous tests of bank integration are weak in … that they are not based on an equilibrium concept and are neither necessary nor sufficient statistics for bank integration …