Using 189 commercial bank mergers between 1997 and 2004, we document a positive impact of the merger activity on bank …

that the industry-adjusted operating performance of merged banks increases significantly after a merger. This finding is … significantly after a merger. Revenue enhancement opportunity appears to be more profitable if there exists more opportunity for …

reactions to the industry peers in the short term and FinTech merger waves in the long term …

emphasizes the unchanged correlation of each independent variable to the dependent variable during the merger and restructuring …

they have a close relationship and that banks' cumulative shareholding by the pre-merger banks is non-linearly related to … find that the cumulative equity stake held by pre-merger banks is non-linearly related to firms' subsequent performance …, and the kink point is 5%. Using the bank merger events and the 5% rule as the exogenous shock for blockholders, our …

firm does not boost the overall value of the merger transaction. -- Merger ; acquisition ; target CEO ; corporate …

We find that stricter merger control legislation increases abnormal announcement returns of targets in bank mergers by … 7 percentage points. Analyzing potential explanations for this result, we document an increase in the pre-merger … other banks. Other merger properties, including the size and risk profile of targets, the geographic overlap of merging …