higher takeover premiums relative to their non-cross-listed peers. Moreover, shareholders of Sarbanes-Oxley-compliant targets …

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 …

Abstract: Using a unique sample of 425 bank mergers in the US announced between 2000 and 2008 this paper provides clear … evidence supporting the collusion and productive efficiency hypotheses. By analyzing 425 bank mergers and a total of 1112 … attributed to either the collusion, productive efficiency, acquisition probability or pre-emptive merger hypothesis. In contrast …

We analyze the role of bank mergers as determinants of the evolution of branch presence at the county level. Panel …- and post-crisis. The results indicate that bank mergers contributed to the increase of branches in the pre-crisis period …