whether the targets in cross-border bank M&As are materially different from those banks targeted in domestic M&A deals. The …, and contrary to what one might expect, bank size does not have a different effect on the probability of being a domestic …

Are the drivers of domestic and cross-border M&As in the banking sector different? Despite the intense research on bank … world countries, from 1992 to 2007. Our results show that size and profitability have a stronger impact on the probability … that a bank is a bidder in a cross-border deal than in a domestic deal. Consistent with the findings of the literature on …

Given the recent traumatic events in the world?s banking industry it is important to understand what drives bankers to …-border bank M&As are materially different from those banks targeted in domestic M&A deals. To address this question we use a … sample of over 24,000 banks from more than 100 countries. We begin by estimating the probability that a bank will be a M …

into analysing the most recent motives behind this wave. This study reviews motives in bank Mamp;A as seen by both parties … and their impact on future bank Mamp;A trends is identified as well as the future acquirers in terms of region …

is shown to increase in the degree of economic specialization. Bank debt financing (the most common source of … entrepreneurs (financial access effect). However, bank debt financing induces risk-shifting incentives (leverage effect). The net …. Since the bailout is focused only on the financial crisis state, it distorts bank incentives to concentrate its loans in …

On February 16, 2002, the Reserve Bank of India issued a circular that signaled a policy liberalization facilitating … relation between firm-specific abnormal returns and factors typically associated with a bank's potential for takeover. These …

firms. Bank distress does not appear to affect small business lending, although even small firms may react to bank distress …, and Udell test hypotheses about the effects of bank size, foreign ownership, and distress on lending to informationally … borrowing from a single bank versus borrowing from several banks.Their results suggest that large and foreign-owned institutions …