results indicate that, relative to counties where the acquirer had operations before the merger, local SBL declined … significantly more in counties where only the target had operations before the merger. This result holds even after controlling for … funding to local small businesses. The absence of local community banks that became a target of a merger or acquisition by …

-performing loans, the reduction of banks operating in Greece due to mergers and acquisitions, bank bankruptcy and withdrawal of foreign … of banks operating in Greece led to the closing of bank branches and dismissal of employees. Nevertheless, some …

We analyze the role of bank mergers as determinants of the evolution of branch presence at the county level. Panel …- and post-crisis. The results indicate that bank mergers contributed to the increase of branches in the pre-crisis period …

The literature has shown that in the short- and medium-term bank mergers and acquisitions (M&As) may generate a … temporary reduction in firm credit. Using bank-firm matched data, this paper investigates the impact of M&As involving Italian … existing evidence. The drop is smaller for infra-group mergers, when the target is healthy or is the firm’s main bank, while is …

reactions to the industry peers in the short term and FinTech merger waves in the long term …

The study examines the value creation of Merger and Acquisition (M&A) deals in European Banking from 1990-2004. This is …

their dispersion for bank groups according to their size; (ii) calculation of cost and profit inefficiency (relative to the … best performer); and (iii) analysis of individual cases of M&As in terms of changes in bank costs and profitability …

This study examines the response of Greek bank stock prices to the announcement of intended mergers and acquisitions (M …

the effect of CEO aggressiveness on bank M&As. We construct a new measure of bank CEO aggressiveness based on CEOs … banks. Moreover, the impact of CEO aggressiveness on bank M&A decisions is more pronounced when the CEOs are from larger and … positive short-term stock market reactions to bank M&As initiated by aggressive CEOs …