by euro zone member solvency issues. In this paper, we examine the contagion effects between sovereign and bank CDS … effects between sovereign vs. bank default risk. By contrast, since the sovereign debt crisis period we observe significant … dependencies between the regional sovereign CDS and the regional bank CDS in other regions, predominantly for the Asia-Pacific and …

of view of bank strategies. The main hypothesis of the work is that, in the present decade, the Pan-European landscape of …

We examine the impact on a firm when it is exogenously forced to switch its bank relationship from one branch to … another branch of the same bank. We show the effect depends directly on the relative balance between the hard accounting … information provided to the bank by the firm, as part of the bank's internal credit rating system and the provision of soft …

whether the targets in cross-border bank M&As are materially different from those banks targeted in domestic M&A deals. The …, and contrary to what one might expect, bank size does not have a different effect on the probability of being a domestic …

Are the drivers of domestic and cross-border M&As in the banking sector different? Despite the intense research on bank … world countries, from 1992 to 2007. Our results show that size and profitability have a stronger impact on the probability … that a bank is a bidder in a cross-border deal than in a domestic deal. Consistent with the findings of the literature on …

Given the recent traumatic events in the world?s banking industry it is important to understand what drives bankers to …-border bank M&As are materially different from those banks targeted in domestic M&A deals. To address this question we use a … sample of over 24,000 banks from more than 100 countries. We begin by estimating the probability that a bank will be a M …