This paper employs a new approach to identify merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions financed by syndicated loans …

This study examines whether top managerial executive envy plays an important role in merger waves. Since managerial … of the banking industry and find that merger waves are motivated by envy-pay …

The impact of cross-border bank M&As on bank risk remains an open question. Though geographically diversifying bank M …&As have the potential to reduce the risk of bank insolvency, they also have the potential to increase that risk due to the … increase in risk-taking incentives for bank managers and stockholders following these transactions. This paper empirically …

This paper analyzes capital market reactions to international bank M&A. We investigate combined stock return patterns … of targets, bidders, and their peers upon takeover announcement, and closing or withdrawal. We distinguish five common M … investors believe in gains through the exploitation of market power by the post-merger entity. In a multinomial logistic model …

This article undertakes an empirical analysis of M&A-related risks based on evidence from eight listed U.S. bank …

factor productivity (TFP), during the period 2004-2016, in four regions of Greece: Macedonia and Thrace (region I), Epirus …, Peloponnesus and the Ionian Islands (region II), Thessaly (region III) and Central Greece, the Aegean Islands and Crete (region IV …). The FPI is further decomposed into measures of technical change, technical efficiency change, scale and mix efficiency …