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 …

not only of the technology but also of firm-level heterogeneity in technical and allocative efficiency levels. The …

Numerous bank productivity studies indicate rapid changes in the structure of the financial services industry and … background of two concepts of performance evaluation – the terms efficiency and productivity, and empirically, the performance … financial institutions. The measurement of bank productivity is of vital importance from both a microeconomic and a …

efficiency of individual banks, are also of great importance to profitability (proxied by ROA and ROE ratios) of banking sectors …. Our results suggest that banking sector specific determinants affect the efficiency of banks in anticipated way …. Macroeconomic variables have statistically significant impact on both ROA and ROE. The sensitivity of efficiency to both groups of …

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

information about suitable merger targets and to manage the merged corporation in case of an acquisition. Our results show that … obtain high-powered incentives and, hence, a high personal income at the merger-management stage. We derive conditions under …