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 …

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 …

We analyze a large merger in the Dutch banking market during the financial crisis using disaggregated data. Based on a … merger simulation model, we evaluate merger-induced changes in the interest rates for savings accounts. We find that the …

We analyze a large merger in the Dutch banking market during the financial crisis using disaggregated data. Based on a … merger simulation model, we evaluate merger-induced changes in the interest rates for savings accounts. We find that the …

and the confidential nature of merger negotiations allows us to precisely measure the wealth effects of M&As in a laissez …

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

This paper analyses the merger control instruments available to overcome a crisis of a company and highlights their … role in the 2008/09 global financial market crisis. It concludes that the German merger control regime is well equipped to …

merger control regime can be successfully employed to regulate too big to fail banks by way of preventing the creation of … such large financial players. To this end, the article propounds the idea of a 'merger control approach'. This is a … role may have on competition. In that regard, the article argues that a merger resulting in the creation of a 'too big to …