We empirically investigate whether and how the ex-ante M&A activity of banks relate to their much debated bailouts and credit ratings during the 2008 financial crisis. Our M&A sample comprises of 1603 transactions performed by 41 large sized European banks over the period 1990-2006. We find that...

This book presents a selection of the best papers from the second annual Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research (IECER), held at the University of Regensburg in February 2004. The papers in this book have several overarching themes. One theme concerns the success...