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Organisational structure as a driver of mergers and acquisitions in the European banking sector

Lebastard, Laura - 2022

This paper studies the bilateral drivers of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) between European banks. Two findings document that banks use M&A as a device to leverage their expertise rather than to diversify. (i) Following the literature on matrimonial matching by using a binary logit model, the...

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Cost efficiency of European cooperative banks

Kuc, Matej - 2018

This paper investigates the size-efficiency relation of European cooperative banks during the 2006-2015 period. We … cooperative banks from 12 European countries. This work extends the existing literature by focusing on shape of size-efficiency … European cooperative banks are significantly more cost efficient than their bigger peers and that the size-efficiency relation …

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The productivity of European banking sector : a review of the post-2000 literature

Maradin, Dario; Prohaska, Zdenko; Nikolaj, Stella Suljic - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 10 (2019) 2, pp. 249-257

Numerous bank productivity studies indicate rapid changes in the structure of the financial services industry and … background of two concepts of performance evaluation – the terms efficiency and productivity, and empirically, the performance … financial institutions. The measurement of bank productivity is of vital importance from both a microeconomic and a …

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