-performing loans, the reduction of banks operating in Greece due to mergers and acquisitions, bank bankruptcy and withdrawal of foreign … of banks operating in Greece led to the closing of bank branches and dismissal of employees. Nevertheless, some …The Greek banking market developed considerably after the accession of Greece to the Eurozone, which was reflected on …

This study examines the response of Greek bank stock prices to the announcement of intended mergers and acquisitions (M …

with average efficiency and profitability, and that these indicators did not change significantly post-takeover. By …We investigate the impact of cross-border takeovers on target banks' profitability, efficiency, and market share in … increasing their market share rather than exporting their efficiency …

goal of this paper is to investigate the change in operating performance, efficiency, and value addition of US bank mergers … examine the factors that have significant impact on changes in bank performance. Our empirical results lead to the conclusion … that the industry-adjusted operating performance of merged banks increases significantly after a merger. This finding is …

The question of whether or not mergers and acquisitions have helped to enhance banks' efficiency and profitability has … problems involved. In this study, we analyze the effect of German bank mergers in the period 1995-2000 on banks' profitability … and cost efficiency. We suggest a new matching strategy to control for the selection effects arising from the fact that …

German banks experienced a merger wave throughout the 1990s. However …

function with a timevariable stochastic efficiency term we show that positive scale and scope effects from a merger arise only … efficiency as the acquiring firms. For the post-merger phase, our empirical results provide no evidence for efficiency gains from … taken over by others are less efficient than the average bank in the same size class, but exhibit on average the same …