the determinants of bank inefficiency 2) Mergers and acquisitions between mutual banks in Italy: an analysis of the … analysis and estimates higher efficiency for merged banks, a lower efficiency degree for pre-merger banks, and a significant …1) Are Italian mutual banks efficient? Evidence from two different cost frontier techniques, by Juan Sergio Lopez …

regulatory capital and subsequent merger activity, including organization and time fixed effects, while the second test employs a … " difference in difference" analysis of the change in merger activity that occurred the last time U.S. regulatory capital standards …

distress-prone bank identified fragile banks effectively during the global crisis without new information and are likely to …Our concern in this paper is two-fold: first to see whether the determinants of bank distress and failure have been any …-weighted counterparts as predictors, despite the focus on the later in the Basel framework. This paper examines bank distress within a large …

gaps of banks in resolution in the euro area. It estimates possible ranges of liquidity gaps for significant banks under …

regimes that seek to limit the use of taxpayer money while maintaining the functions of failing banks that are critical for … banks in resolution. It examines the provision of liquidity in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada and the … liquidity provision and the roles of the public budget and the central bank. The comparison also reveals that the role of fiscal …

Member Central Banks. We generally observed that, banking crisis management provisions in the parent legislations of WAMZ … their legal and regulatory frameworks with these provisions relevant for the resolution of such banks. …

Member Central Banks. We generally observed that, banking crisis management provisions in the parent legislations of WAMZ … their legal and regulatory frameworks with these provisions relevant for the resolution of such banks. …

arbitrarily fixed at 100. The basic issue to be clarified is not whether a second round of cross-border mergers and acquisitions … of view of bank strategies. The main hypothesis of the work is that, in the present decade, the Pan-European landscape of … the financial sector will be determined by what is happening in a limited number of banks, this number being rather …

This paper aims at providing a complete picture of banking mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in Europe during the 1990s …, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, the impact on profitability is insignificant, but a clear trend to … diversify the sources of revenues was apparent. The cost and profit efficiency analysis based on 33 bank-to-bank mergers …

This essay discusses the corporate governance of banks. Bank managers must balance competing demands from shareholders … and regulators, which distinguishes banks from most other firms. The essay is structured into three parts. The theoretical … creditors, and integrates bank regulation into the concept of debt governance. The empirical section surveys the extant …