,300 mergers that took place between 1978 and 2001 to analyse the determinants of international bank mergers. We test the extent to … which information costs and regulations hold back merger activity. Our results suggest that banks operating in more … regulated environments are less likely to be the targets of international bank mergers. Hence, the lifting of regulations can …

impact on the European banking sector and the European economy. The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Single Resolution …

Using a database of more than 2,000 international bank M&A deals completed between 1990 and 2007 and the unique bank … regulation data collected by Barth, Caprio, and Levine (2006), we analyze the effects of bank regulations on bank's cross …-border M&As around the world. Results suggest that banks have strong incentives to expand into lightly regulated countries …

available to banks in individual EU countries help to account for cross-border merger activity. The paper explains how this …

as a basis, the merger and consolidation of the Spanish Banco Santander in Mexico, what was your strategy for fusion of … have become the fourth strongest bank in Mexico and one of the strongest banks in the world, as part of the explanation is …

as a basis, the merger and consolidation of the Spanish Banco Santander in Mexico, what was your strategy for fusion of … have become the fourth strongest bank in Mexico and one of the strongest banks in the world, as part of the explanation is …