The traditional role of a bank was to transfer funds from savers to investors, engaging in maturity transformation … innovation and technology. These new bank business models have had repercussions on the loan contract. In particular, the main … lending. And the lending technology is evolving from one-to-one meetings between a loan officer and a borrower, at a bank …

-oriented regime for merger control increases banks’ stock prices, whereas it decreases those of non-financial firms. Moreover, bank … merger targets become more profitable and larger. A major determinant of the positive bank returns, after controlling inter … alia for the general quality of institutions and individual bank characteristics, is the opaqueness that characterizes the …