are regulated, including the need to obtain a charter to operate and explicit and implicit federal guarantees of bank … liabilities to reduce the probability of bank runs. These aspects of banking affect a bankś choice of risk vs. expected return …, which, in turn, affects bank performance. Banks have an incentive to reduce risk to protect the valuable charter from …

-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 …

advisors to acquirers. In particular, the target earns higher abnormal returns when the target's own bank certifies the (more …. Second, acquirers predominantly use commercial bank advisors to obtain access to bank loans that may be used to finance the …. Moreover, the advising bank's recommendations may be distorted by considerations related to credit exposure incurred in both …

banking. Using cross-sectional data on publicly traded, highest-level U.S. bank holding companies, we find empirical evidence …

Bank consolidation is a global phenomenon. It may enhance the value of firms in the industry if, for example, it is … bank holding companies in the U.S., we find strong evidence of managerial entrenchment that influences how asset … acquisitions and sales affect financial performance. We measure bank financial performance both by Tobin's q ratio and by its …