The New Proposal of Basel Committee on banking regulation issued in January 2001 allows banks to use Internal Rating Systems to classify firms. Within this context, the main problem is to find a model that fits data as better as possible, providing at the same time good prediction and...

Are the drivers of domestic and cross-border M&As in the banking sector different? We answer this question studying the <italic>ex ante</italic> determinants of national and international acquisitions in the banking sector in an unbalanced panel of nearly 1000 banks from 50 countries, from 1992 to 2007. Contrary...

The New Proposal of Basel Committee on banking regulation issued in January 2001 allows banks to use Internal Rating Systems to classify firms. Within this context, the main problem is to find a model that fits data as better as possible, providing at the same time good prediction and...

Are the drivers of domestic and cross-border M&As in the banking sector different? Despite the intense research on bank M&As in the last decade, the attention paid to this issue is surprisingly limited. We fill this gap studying the ex-ante determinants of national and international acquisitions...