Using a sample of 312 bank M&As announced between 1998 and 2016 in the EU-27 countries, this paper investigates the … countries indicate that the crisis did not have a significant impact on the quality of bank M&As in the region …

with bank-level data to study the contagion potential of an exogenous shock via credit and funding risks. We find that …-linear function of the combination of network structures and bank-specific characteristics …

This research investigates the impact of banking market competition on bank risk using a sample of all the commercial … bias, endogeneity, and simultaneity issues. After controlling for bank market and country specific characteristics, this … Conventional banks and Islamic banks, to explore any possible bank type effects. However, it is concluded that intense banking …

We develop a dynamic model of endogenous bank capital choice in which banks cannot access the equity market to raise … capital in some states due to equity market frictions. In these frictional states, banks with a shortage in bank capital need … requirements. Our model suggests that a typical bank will try to keep valuable relationship lending and prefer to eat up capital …

We examine the effects of competition on bank risk. We find strong evidence that interstate banking deregulation … — which generally increases bank competition — is associated with lower bank risk and some evidence intrastate branching … increases bank risk. Further, interstate banking reduces bank risk more in sparsely populated states. Additional analyses …

By investigating the influence of negative interest rate policy (NIRP) on bank margins and profitability, this paper … identifies country- and bank- specific characteristics that amplify or weaken the effect of NIRP on bank performance. Using a … find that bank margins and profits fell in NIRP-adopter countries compared to countries that did not adopt the policy …