Sectoral loan concentration is an important factor in bank performance. We develop a measure of sectoral loan … concentration and study how community bank performance and the size-performance relationship vary with loan concentration and …-estate (RRE) sector. Higher RRE concentration is associated with lower returns especially for larger community banks — banks with …

thirty European banks. This research uses a technique of panel data over the period 2004 to 2009. The results show that banks … mechanisms and capital regulations are the determinants of the bank performance …

Bank compensation in distress is often regarded as special due to the prevalence of high bonus payments. I study … European banks over the period 2014 to 2018 to determine how banks adjust compensation during distress in the post-crisis era … executive and non-executive level. Banks are classiffied as (un-)stressed based on the results of the ECB's 2014 stress test. As …

We study how acquisition-FDI during economic crises affects R&D investments of target firms as compared to acquisitions …

margin. -- Regional banks ; bank funding ; mergers & acquisitions … mergers among small local banks - the key driver of bank growth - are a recent phenomenon not only in European banking that is …Motivated by the recent discussion of the declining importance of deposits as banks' major source of funding we …

gains. -- Mergers and acquisitions ; post-merger performance ; bank mergers …In this paper, we investigate how bank mergers affect bank revenues and present empirical evidence that mergers among … banks have a substantial and persistent negative impact on merging banks' revenues. We refer to merger related negative …