goal of this paper is to investigate the change in operating performance, efficiency, and value addition of US bank mergers … examine the factors that have significant impact on changes in bank performance. Our empirical results lead to the conclusion …

Though overall bank performance from July 2007 to December 2008 was the worst since at least the Great Depression … performance of banks during the credit crisis. More specifically, we investigate whether bank performance is related to bank …-level governance, country-level governance, country-level regulation, and bank balance sheet and profitability characteristics before …

in cost efficiency. Hence, the improvements in cost efficiency appear to be transferred to bank clients. These changes in … achieve better post-M&A performance. The environmental and bank-characteristics that make a deal successful or unsuccessful …

institutions and the bank holding sub-segment. We estimate the influence of market-timing, take specifications of this highly …-timing has a positive but limited impact on value creation in financial institution and bank holding buyouts, and we find … evidence that the value creation in the capital intense and highly regulated bank holding sub-segment is not diluted by …

This paper seeks to review the theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between bank governance and …-2008 financial crisis, bank corporate governance mechanisms received heightened attention, accompanied by the renewed interest in the …-financial crisis periods. Finally, we also survey the (very) scarce research on the relationship between board characteristics and bank …

The aim of the article is to analyze good practices on the diversity of bank boards in the European Union. A …

The main strategic objective of bank-affiliated venture capital funds (BVCs) is to enhance demand of debt capital from …

We examine the relationship between performance of the bank holding company and several board characteristics. We find … that board size, CEO tenure and board tenure enhance bank performance. However, we find no evidence that board structure or … CEO power influences bank performance. More importantly, we show that the effect of board characteristics during the …

point. Thus, bank efficiency will increase as board size and the proportion of independent directors grow up to a point … where these relationships hit a maximum from which bank performance decreases. Our multi-model estimations failed to trace … dual appointment of a CEO as Chairman appears to affect negatively two out of four proxies of bank performance. Overall …