Commission discussed the management of change in EU cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M & A). The Danske Bank/National Irish … Bank case was presented jointly by Søren Rahbek, Senior Vice President responsible for Human Resources Development at … Danske Bank, Sean McGrath, Head of Human Resources at National Irish Bank and Larry Broderick, General Secretary of Irish …

. Building on earlier US evidence, we examine the impact of strategic similarities between bidders and targets on post-merger … financial performance. We find that, on average, bank mergers in the European Union resulted in improved return on capital. By …

asymmetries within the bank combined with fixed wages. Two kinds of inefficiencies arise in equilibrium: the credit officer either … bank accepts the information asymmetries, is called the centralized structure. Under decentralized structure the bank … finance more small firms, but incur higher costs than centralized ones. Small banks are interpreted as a bank with relatively …

network on November 29u009630, 2007, hosted by international bank Santander at its corporate headquarters in Madrid, Spain. In …

We model the impact of bank mergers on loan competition, banks' reserve holdings and aggregate liquidity. Banks compete … in a differentiated loan market, hold reserves against liquidity shocks, and refinance in the interbank market. A merger … in liquidity risk and expected liquidity needs for each bank and for the banking system. Large mergers tend to increase …