measured by the Z-score technique while controlling for macroeconomic, bank-specific, regulatory, and institutional factors …

We analyze the takeover premiums paid for a sample of European bank mergers between 1997 and 2007. We find that … acquiring banks value profitable, high-growth, and low-risk targets. We also find that the strength of bank regulation and … supervision and of deposit insurance regimes in Europe has measurable effects on takeover pricing. Stricter bank regulatory …

countries and over the years. The statistical results indicated that while some differences in bank behavior as indicated by the …. European bank behavior gave evidence of being in harmony and uniform over countries and years. Some policy implications are … discussed briefly. -- Bank behavior ; Profit ; Capital account ratios ; Harmonization …

range of real sectors is limited. Our results imply that regulators and supervisors should address international bank … dependencies arising from common risk factors, while recessions in real sectors due to bank defaults should be a secondary concern. …

This paper examines the treatment of sovereign debt exposure within the Basel framework and measures the impact of bank … regulation on the demand of Monetary Financial Institutions (MFI) for marketable sovereign debt. Our results suggest that bank …

. The European Central Bank, in its capacity as supervisory authority for systemically important banks, as well as the …