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 … adjusted performance more than product focused mergers. The efficiency or profitability of targets have either a positive or no …

impact of income, asset, and funding diversifications on the cost and profit efficiency of the US commercial banks over the …) effect on the cost efficiency of the banks, while funding (income) diversification has a significantly negative (positive …) effect on profit efficiency. Our findings reveal that during the global financial crisis asset diversification is not …

for convergent clusters in banking efficiency. Findings - Our main findings show that the bank efficiency of the US is …Purpose - This paper investigates the development of efficiency and the progress of banking integration in the European … bootstrap DEA method, which absorbs the effects of possible integration barriers in the measurement of efficiency. Afterwards …

in the efficiency and productivity of U.S. banks between 1985 and 2004. We find that larger banks experienced larger … efficiency and productivity gains than small banks, consistent with the presumption that recent changes in regulation and …

weather conditions. This paper provides the theoretical framework to study the impact of weather through its influence on bank … manager's mood on bank inefficiency. In particular, we provide empirical evidence of the dynamic interactions between weather … and bank loan inefficiency, using a panel data set that includes 69 banks operating in the US spanning the period 1994 to …