identifies some key patterns of cross-border investment in bank subsidiaries by key banking groups in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …

supposition that management quality ought to be one of the foremost firm-specific factors likely to drive a bank's aspiration of … higher the level of Xefficiency or managerial quality of a bank the larger the likelihood of becoming a bank with a strong …

,300 mergers that took place between 1978 and 2001 to analyse the determinants of international bank mergers. We test the extent to … regulated environments are less likely to be the targets of international bank mergers. Hence, the lifting of regulations can … spur growth in cross-border bank mergers. Also, mergers tend to be less frequent if information costs are high. …

show some evidence that the X-efficiency of a foreign-owned bank is strongly influenced by the competitiveness of its home …

The latest global financial and economic crisis reignited the debate on the costs and benefits of foreign bank presence … behaviour. We employ panel estimation method with a pooled mean group estimator. The results do confirm the thesis that foreign … other fundamental factors, rather than the actual dynamics of foreign bank presence. The availability of bank funding is one …

to design optimal compensation schemes. Using data from a foreign-owned bank in Central-East Europe, we find that the … differentiated incentive pay raises productivity, especially in the larger branches of the bank. However, it has mixed benefits for … estimation and generalized propensity score estimation. Our results underscore (a) the risks of quantity-based incentives and …

are a function of risk-free rates and a bank-specific risk premium. Cost of equity estimates declined steadily across all …-free rates over this period, and (ii) a decline in the sensitivity of bank stock returns to market risk (the CAPM beta) in all …