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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 …
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This paper presents new evidence regarding the relation between profit, revenue, and cost efficiencies of U.S. commercial banks. Building on the widely used nonstandard profit function (NSPF) approach, we show (i) why estimation of NSPF would be wrong and (ii) how revenue and cost efficiencies...
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The Lerner index is widely used to assess firms' market power. However, estimation and interpretation present several challenges, especially for banks, which tend to produce multiple outputs and operate with considerable inefficiency. We estimate Lerner indices for U.S. banks for 2001-18 using...
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The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of bank capital, bank liquidity level and credit risk on the … USA banking industry. The findings show that bank capital and credit risk influence profitability in Asian developed … is similar for large, small and medium-size banks. The results of this paper indicate that liquidity and bank capital …
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We study market reactions to seasoned equity issuances that were announced by financial companies between 2002 and 2013. To assess the risk and valuation implications of these seasoned equity issuances, we conduct an event analysis using daily credit default swap (CDS) and stock market pricing...
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This study is motivated by the development of credit-related instruments and signals of stock price movements of large banks during the recent financial crisis. What is common to most of the empirical studies in this field is that they concentrate on modeling the conditional mean. However,...
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In the wake of the global financial crisis that erupted in 2008, there has been extensive commentary and regulatory focus on the 'Too Big to Fail' issue. In this paper, we survey the proposed solutions and regulatory initiatives that have been undertaken. We conduct a longitudinal analysis of...
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the public, long-term systemic risk among banks tends to increase. From the dynamic perspective, bank penalties represent … long-term. In this respect, bank penalties resemble still waters that run deep. In contrast, a settlement with regulatory …
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A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization … bank soundness. We find evidence that competition robustly increases bank soundness, via the efficiency channel … role in the transmission from competition to soundness. We use a twopronged approach. First, we employ Granger causality …
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