in the banking sectors of various countries. After the 2007-2009 crisis, bank capital requirements have, in some cases … guidelines has contributed to regulatory complexity, even when omitting other bank capital regulations that are specific to the … US, and (3) how the US regulatory measures still do not provide equally valuable information about whether a bank is …

recognition of public good doctrine in banking such as: a very big area for state regulation, state banking supervision, state …

dataset on the transparency on merger control in the EU banking sector, we estimate the probability that a bank is taken over … sector. The results indicate that a bank is systematically more likely to be taken over by foreign credit institutions if the … merger control lacks transparency. This is in line with the hypothesis that governments may block crossborder bank merger …

market. Based on a dataset on the transparency on the supervisory review process of bank mergers in the EU, I estimate the … probability that a bank is taken over as a function of bank and country characteristics and the transparency of merger control …