HANNAN, TIMOTHY H.; PILLOFF, STEVEN J. - In: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 41 (2009) 6, pp. 1167-1187
This paper uses a large sample of individual banking organizations, observed from 1996 to 2005, to investigate the characteristics that made them more likely to be acquired. We use a definition of acquisition that we consider preferable to that used in much of the previous literature, and we...