This paper studies the impact of European bank mergers and acquisitions on changes in key safety and soundness measures of both acquirers and targets. We find that capitalization, profitability and liquidity show signs of statistically and economically signifi cant mean reversion for acquirers....

En este estudio investigamos los determinantes de las emisiones denominadas en dólares de deuda a largo plazo por parte de la banca europea. Para ello empleamos una base de datos que permite explorar los factores que, según la literatura, explican las emisiones en moneda extranjera. Incluimos...

Este documento es uno de los primeros en investigar los determinantes en la emisión de bonos por parte de las entidades bancarias europeas. Utilizamos una base de datos única de en torno a 50.000 bonos emitidos por 63 bancos de 14 países europeos para comprobar explícitamente una serie de...

Development literature has recently promoted the use of producer organization in linking farmers to better-paying commodity markets. However, empirical studies find mixed performance of such organizations. This study examines the producer organization’s internal factors that may explain the...

Institutional problems and the corruptive use of social capital give ground for misuse ofinstitutional gaps and cause intentional failures for financial benefits. Based on socialcapital theory and transaction cost economics (TCE) this paper describes how theinstitutional environment in the...

Objective of this paper is to analyse themotivations in the purchase of Fair Trade (FT) foodproducts sold in the World Shops (WS) in order tocharacterize WS consumer profiles according to theethical content of their motivations. A questionnaire hasbeen distributed, at this end, to a sample of...

Social Network Capital and Academic Careers: The Case of a College of AgricultureABSTRACT The relationship between economic performance and various forms of capital anchors a significant portion of mainstream economic theory and applied economics. Human, physical and financial capital represent...