-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 …

analyze merger activities during economic crisis periods, as it was in Greece recently. This paper explores the accounting …Merger deals are one of the most important business strategies which can change the company value dramatically. Mergers … performance of Greek listed companies after mergers in 2009-2015, the economic crisis period in Greece. Thus, all mergers of …

factor productivity (TFP), during the period 2004-2016, in four regions of Greece: Macedonia and Thrace (region I), Epirus …, Peloponnesus and the Ionian Islands (region II), Thessaly (region III) and Central Greece, the Aegean Islands and Crete (region IV …). The FPI is further decomposed into measures of technical change, technical efficiency change, scale and mix efficiency …

point. Thus, bank efficiency will increase as board size and the proportion of independent directors grow up to a point … where these relationships hit a maximum from which bank performance decreases. Our multi-model estimations failed to trace … dual appointment of a CEO as Chairman appears to affect negatively two out of four proxies of bank performance. Overall …

bank performance for the case of Greek banks using a variety of econometric methodologies. Exhaustive empirical findings … findings support an inverted U-shaped relation between board size and bank performance and between the proportion of … acquisitions activity, bank size and capital adequacy of each bank. Overall, our results document the positive contribution of the …

Using a sample of 312 bank M&As announced between 1998 and 2016 in the EU-27 countries, this paper investigates the … the merger announcement date. In fact, since 2009, acquiring banks shareholders gain approximately $34 million around the … by significant improvements in post-merger profitability. Markedly, we link this superior performance of the post-2008 …