examines the interplay among bank behavior, market structure, and regulation from the perspective of a variety of public policy … issues, including bank competition and risk, market discipline, antitrust issues, and capital regulation. New to this edition …1 The Banking Environment -- 2 Alternative Perspectives on Bank Behavior -- 3 The Industrial Economics of Banking -- 4 …

cleared the banking sector of weaker links and showed both the central bank and the management of operating banks the … economic policy as well as reliable currency and the central bank's policy, which forces the reforms. …

We find that stricter merger control legislation increases abnormal announcement returns of targets in bank mergers by … 7 percentage points. Analyzing potential explanations for this result, we document an increase in the pre-merger … other banks. Other merger properties, including the size and risk profile of targets, the geographic overlap of merging …