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

The recent banking sector shakeup in Ghana resulted in a wave of bank failures, leading to mergers and consolidations … of several banks. This study analyses the financial performance of commercial banks before the crises of the banking … sector in 2017. Four out of the affected banks were selected based on the availability of financials over four years …

This paper studies the impact of recent mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on the cost and profit efficiency of banks in … Greece. To this end, three methods have been applied: (i) analysis of developments in certain cost and profit indicators and … their dispersion for bank groups according to their size; (ii) calculation of cost and profit inefficiency (relative to the …

This study examines the response of Greek bank stock prices to the announcement of intended mergers and acquisitions (M …&As) during the period 1998-1999, applying a standard event study methodology. The results show that both the acquiring banks and …, albeit to a lesser extent, the target banks experience significant positive abnormal stock returns that last for a few days …

The concept of mergers and acquisitions has been an interesting area of study in the literature of finance (Sharma … acquisitions (M&As) on the performance of banks involved in M&As in the Nigerian banking industry. With the aid of financial ratios … and t-test, the post-merger performance of seven banks listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) that completed an M …

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

This study presents the results from a comprehensive out-of-sample test of long-run returns following mergers and … acquisitions (M&As). Using a unique sample from 23 frontier markets of almost 800 transactions conducted during the years 1992 to …

We examine the valuation of synergies and control in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Central and Eastern European … from the Thomson Reuters database. Worldwide the market of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is increasing, reaching in 2016 a …

that it is beneficial to be a non-merging rival firm to a large horizontal merger. Using a sample of mergers with expert …It is commonly perceived that firms do not want to be outsiders to a merger between competitor firms. We instead argue … merger announcement date. Further, we find that the stock reaction of rivals to merger events is not sensitive to merger …

One of the key processes that business leaders are using to grow their organizations is mergers and acquisitions (M …