with stricter bank supervision, widely dispersed bank ownership and for EU banks cross-listed in the US. This provides …

Bank of Scotland with those at non-ailing banks in the UK; the other compares remuneration policies at UBS and Credit …

special focus on bank mergers during the financial crisis of this decade. During this crisis period when many big banks are … event study methodology, we investigate the wealth effect on acquiring banks to understand the market reaction in bank … States and European countries, respectively to the acquiring bank. When we focus on banks with different size and location …

Information asymmetries can severely limit cross-border border expansion of banks. When a bank enters a new market, it … financial data on bank clients. We investigate the interaction of credit registers and bank entry modes (in form of branching … and private credit registers and the type of information exchanged affect bank entry modes during the period 1990 …

We analyze the takeover premiums paid for a sample of European bank mergers between 1997 and 2007. We find that … acquiring banks value profitable, high-growth and low risk targets. We also find that the strength of bank regulation and … supervision as well as deposit insurance regimes in Europe have measurable effects on takeover pricing. Stricter bank regulatory …

groups of indicators or dimension: ratings (country and bank), size, ownership, corporate governance, capital adequacy or …

stability of banks by performing separate analyses at the country level and the bank level. The results indicate that the level … stability, the sign of the estimated effect is reversed when the analysis is performed at the bank level. We argue that the … latter approach is more appropriate because it focuses solely on the within-bank variation in stability and because it allows …