/or sectoral origin indicators. Second, we use network centrality measures to identify systemically important financial … institutions. Third, we test if bailouts stabilized network neighbors and thus this financial system. Financial firms from the same … increase the likelihood of significant links. Central network indicators based on significant CCPs identify many institutions …

/or sectoral origin indicators. Second, we use network centrality measures to identify systemically important financial … institutions. Third, we test if bailouts stabilized network neighbors and thus this financial system. Financial firms from the same … increase the likelihood of significant links. Central network indicators based on significant CCPs identify many institutions …

Most bank efficiency studies that use stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) employ each bank's own implicit input price …

The inability of most bank merger studies to control for hidden bailouts may lead to biased results. In this study, we … employ a unique data set of approximately 1,000 mergers to analyze the determinants of bank mergers. We use data on the …

German banks experienced a merger wave throughout the 1990s. However, the success of bank mergers remains a continuous …

different banks as being best or worst performers. Our main conclusion is that efficiency studies in general and bank efficiency …

parametric methods. Thus, the implicit assumption of serial independence of bank production in most methods has an important …