acquiring banks value profitable, high-growth and low risk targets. We also find that the strength of bank regulation and … regimes and stronger deposit insurance schemes lower the takeover premiums paid by acquiring banks. This result, presumably in …

home country prudential supervisors and deposit insurance funding systems were stricter than the target‘s. For target banks …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the complexities of reorganizing and/or liquidating troubled banks … diversity that currently exists among national supervisory, remedial and failure resolution practices for banks. It also … assesses the economic efficiency of the institutional framework for resolving problem banks that is defined by the …

examining the composition effects of sovereign portfolios on banks’ risk profile, unlike previous studies which generally … analyzed the determinants of banks’ sovereign portfolios or the size effects of these portfolios. We also differ from previous …