Why do some banks fail in financial crises while others survive? This article answers this question by analysing the … effect of the Dutch financial crisis of the 1920s on 142 banks, of which 33 failed. We find that choices of balance sheet … composition and product market strategy made in the lead-up to the crisis had a significant impact on banks’ subsequent chances of …

This paper examines whether labor unions affect the bank performance during recently financial crisis. The empirical … evidence from 228 largest banks around the globe indicate that the buy-and-hold returns of unionized banks are higher and the … default probabilities are lower during the crisis period when compared non-unionized banks. In addition, unionized banks …

policies of UT Bank and other banks that were caught within similar difficulties in the industry must be immediately improved …A robust bank-based financial industry is a major player in the stability of an economy. This is demonstrated by the … importance most countries place on macroeconomic decisions involving the banking sector. In 2017, the Ghana bank industry …

that it is beneficial to be a non-merging rival firm to a large horizontal merger. Using a sample of mergers with expert …It is commonly perceived that firms do not want to be outsiders to a merger between competitor firms. We instead argue … merger announcement date. Further, we find that the stock reaction of rivals to merger events is not sensitive to merger …

to identify the effects of prohibiting start-up acquisitions. We differentiate between killer acquisitions (when the … incumbent does not commercialize the acquired start-up's technology) and acquisitions with commercialization. A restrictive …

One of the key processes that business leaders are using to grow their organizations is mergers and acquisitions (M …

returns. Our results cast doubt on the usefulness of announcement returns as a measure of the value created in acquisitions …

to identify the effects of prohibiting start-up acquisitions. We differentiate between killer acquisitions (when the … incumbent does not commercialize the acquired start-up's technology) and acquisitions with commercialization. A restrictive …

restructuring. We argue that a merger announcement may signal the possibility of a merger wave to the industry, and in doing so …

We examine the valuation of synergies and control in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Central and Eastern European … from the Thomson Reuters database. Worldwide the market of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is increasing, reaching in 2016 a …