This paper evaluates factors that encourage or impede cross-border mergers and acquisitions in banking. The effects of … bank specific features, as well as bank regulatory factors, from both target and acquiring banks' perspectives, are … estimated. Three comprehensive databases are combined to provide a unique dataset to study cross-border merger and acquisition …

This technical note analyzes the competition in the banking sector in Denmark. It reveals that Denmark has a fairly … competitive and efficient banking sector. Measured by various indicators, efficiency of banking intermediation has been improving … in recent years. The banking sector has become concentrated, and profitability of banks is relatively high and growing …

The paper assesses the degree of banking competition and efficiency in Italy?over time as well as compared to that in … the Italian banking sector has intensified in loan and deposit markets in recent years, but banks still operate in a … dealing with weak banks and other merger and acquisition reviews focus on stability and competition objectives. …

This study reinvestigates the theoretical relationship between competition in banking and banks' exposure to risk of …-competitive consolidation as a response to banking instability. We then show that existing theoretical analyses of this topic are fragile, since … essential ingredients of models of bank competition. …

balance sheet of the legal successor of a merger of the businesses of the participating companies; The determination of an …, there is a solution based on the direction implied already in the 1980’s by International Accounting Standards, i.e. to …