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

stock prices of non-financial firms. Bank targets become more profitable and larger, while those of non-financial firms … remain mostly unaffected. A major determinant of the positive bank returns is the degree of opaqueness that characterizes the … institutional setup for supervisory bank merger reviews. The legal design of the supervisory control of bank mergers may therefore …

spread of a bank by about two basis points. We further find that some banks have already reached a size that makes them too …

competition/performance and financia1 sector openness (meaning foreign bank access to domestic markets), and between growth and …

competitive environment affect bank monitoring choices and the effectiveness of capital regulation? Our approach deviates from the …

This paper examines whether bank ownership (public versus private, domestic versus foreign) is correlated with bank … bank managers; evidence is found in support of the former hypothesis. In the case of foreign-owned banks, the paper finds …

This paper builds a new dataset on bank ownership and bank performance covering approximately 50,000 observations for … 119 countries over the 1995-2002 period. The paper then uses the dataset to reassess the relationship between bank … ownership and bank performance, providing separated estimations for developing and industrial countries. It is found that, while …

This paper tests the efficiency of different structures of bank ownership in terms of its ability to target …

International financial linkages, particularly through global bank flows, generate important questions about the …. Empirical tests of the trilemma support this view that global bank effects are heterogeneous and that the primary drivers of …