available to banks in individual EU countries help to account for cross-border merger activity. The paper explains how this …

,300 mergers that took place between 1978 and 2001 to analyse the determinants of international bank mergers. We test the extent to … regulated environments are less likely to be the targets of international bank mergers. Hence, the lifting of regulations can … past two decades, international M&As were relatively rare until recently. This paper uses a novel dataset of over 2 …