shown how a merger between two duopoly banks would typically decrease the interest rate and increase the investment volume … mild conditions held. Under highly plausible conditions this implies that a merger will decrease the fragility of loan …

-owned banks. The levels of non-performing loans and capital adequacy ratios compare poorly in international perspective and may … deteriorate further, which could require significant bank recapitalisation. Updated bottom-up (i.e. loan by loan) stress tests are … for the two main stateowned banks in mid-2012. To foster the credibility of the new tests, the main results and underlying …

In this study, we examine non-government-assisted US commercial bank merger activity prior to and during the recent … discrepancies between targets and acquirers are also greater for crisis period mergers, suggesting that merger gains outweigh … financial crisis. Mergers that occur throughout the crisis appear to be more significant events for both targets and acquirers …

, accounting principles and disclosure requirements of public companies on the practice of rewarding executives of the US banks is … the value for bank's shareholders and other stakeholders. …

This paper analyzes the systemic risk effects of bank mergers to test the “concentration-fragility” hypothesis. We use … the marginal expected shortfall as well as the lower tail dependence between a bank’s stock returns and a relevant bank … merging banks’, the combined banks’ as well as their competitors’ contribution to systemic risk following mergers, thus …

central bank retaining the veto over merger approval. … spread discourages savings and investments on the one hand, and raises concerns on the effectiveness of bank lending channel … 29 banks. The results show that inelasticity of deposit supply is a major determinant of interest spread whereas industry …

banks is the absence of alternate options for the savers. The on-going merger wave in the banking industry will further … authority with the central bank retaining the veto over merger approval. … interest spread discourages savings and investments on the one hand, and raises concerns on the effectiveness of bank lending …