cost inefficiency. For takeovers by banks, a significant negative relationship between cost inefficiency and takeover is … takeover of U.S. thrifts during a period of market liberalization and widespread takeover activity, 1994 to 2000. In the first …

I study the relative importance of lending and deposit-taking for bank value. Comparing outcomes for winning banks to … runner-up bidders in failed bank auctions, I find winners experience a 1.5% abnormal return and this increase is mainly due … to deposits, not loans. After acquisition, the winning bank cuts lending to the failed bank's borrowers and closes …

(after bank deregulation had expanded banks' risk-taking opportunities) and acquisitions completed by the largest banks in … risk-inducing mergers. Our findings are driven by two types of acquisitions: acquisitions completed during the last decade …We analyze how the structure of executive compensation affects the risk choices made by bank CEOs. For a sample of …

mergers and acquisitions in the sector, necessitating the maintenance of this dividend trend by banks to retain current …; customer tastes, habits and demand; and input supply changes. Changes in these require adjustments in the bank’s operations … in 2005 made shareholders better-off. This implies the post merger and acquisition desire of bank managements to reward …

large banks) have been receiving, there is no consistent picture of the impact of mergers on the stability of the financial … system. In this paper, we aim to provide a universal framework to study the generic effect of mergers and acquisitions on the … diversification of single banks and support their resilience to shocks, and may slow down contagious default. However, merger …

(SBL) in the context of mergers and acquisitions. From all mergers that involved community banks, we examine the varying … funding to local small businesses. The absence of local community banks that became a target of a merger or acquisition by … impact on SBL depending on the local presence of the acquirers’ and the targets’ operations prior to acquisitions. Our …