enhances the incentives of banks to expand within Euroland. Yet, while the currency bias in bank portfolios will be eliminated …

,300 mergers that took place between 1978 and 2001 to analyse the determinants of international bank mergers. We test the extent to … regulated environments are less likely to be the targets of international bank mergers. Hence, the lifting of regulations can … spur growth in cross-border bank mergers. Also, mergers tend to be less frequent if information costs are high. …

Europe, bank finance plays a relatively important role, and efforts have been made at creating a level playing field for …

-sectional data on publicly traded, highest-level U.S. bank holding companies, we find empirical evidence of Marcus? proposition (1984 …

Great strides have been made in the theory of bank technology in terms of explaining banks' comparative advantage in … theories to analyze the particular environment of banking. In recent years, the empirical modeling of bank technology and the … measurement of bank performance have begun to incorporate these theoretical developments and yield interesting insights that …

' international activities. We find that country- and bank-specific variables capturing size have a major impact on banks' foreign …