firm is expected to need if we have another financial crisis.FindingsLarge acquiring banks decrease systemic risk …

Banks operating in a regulated environment need to operate within the fiscal, monetary, political and legal regulations …; customer tastes, habits and demand; and input supply changes. Changes in these require adjustments in the bank’s operations … proven an appropriate business, growth and financial strategy with which banks in Nigeria can cope in their dynamic operating …

Dodd-Frank Act. We develop a novel research design that estimates indirect treatment effects for banks just below the …

supporting the idea that the reform had a positive average effect and increased banks competition intensity during a few years …. However, we also document heterogeneity as some large banks benefited from an increase in their market power. We perform …

single banking market and to break the nexus between banks and sovereigns. Ideally, banks should be subject to a common set … amendments to the Union regulatory framework aiming to achieve a dual objective; to strengthen banks’ profitability and overall … Board (SRB) have granted (temporary) relief measures to banks to withstand the effects of the pandemic and continue lending …

1) Are Italian mutual banks efficient? Evidence from two different cost frontier techniques, by Juan Sergio Lopez …, Alessandra Appenini, and Stefania P.S. Rossi. The aim of the first paper is to analyze the efficiency of co-operative banks in … small financial institutions that used to operate in a more protected environment. Based on a panel of about 450 banks …

directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state …-owned savings banks. Contemporaneously, banks in both markets engaged heavily in mergers and acquisitions. We analyze how these … activities have affected banks' productivity in the period 1994-2004, differentiating between technical change, efficiency change …