This paper looks at the role of both commercial and investment banks in providing merger advisory services. In this … investment banks. In their dual role as lenders and advisors to firms that are the target or the acquirer in a merger, banks can … advisors to acquirers. In particular, the target earns higher abnormal returns when the target's own bank certifies the (more …

,300 mergers that took place between 1978 and 2001 to analyse the determinants of international bank mergers. We test the extent to … which information costs and regulations hold back merger activity. Our results suggest that banks operating in more … regulated environments are less likely to be the targets of international bank mergers. Hence, the lifting of regulations can …

industries in the sector-specific takeover market, this working paper proves the common knowledge for the example of … corporate characteristics are of significant importance. With respect to prevailing takeover strategies, the survey reveals a …-affected takeover strategies that are elaborated on more closely within the working paper. Examining an acquisition focus in terms of …

We analyze a Bayesian merger game under two-sided asymmetric information about firm types. We show that the standard … prediction of the lemons market model-if any, only low-type firms are traded-is likely to be misleading: Merger returns, i.e. the … difference between pre- and post-merger profits, are not necessarily higher for low-type firms. This has two implications. First …

share of sales from product innovations is not significantly affected by a foreign takeover for a given amount of innovation …

spite of the overall convergence of European takeover and securities trading laws, Germany still shows many peculiarities … will risk their takeover attempt be frustrated by opposing influence groups. …

probability that a bank is taken over as a function of bank and country characteristics and the transparency of merger control … market. Based on a dataset on the transparency on the supervisory review process of bank mergers in the EU, I estimate the … regulatory process is transparent. Particularly large banks seem to be less likely to be taken over by foreign banks if merger …