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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Bank Mergers"”.
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Comparing bank mergers in Europe and the USA: bidding bank performance
Banking is different from the provision of other goods and services and of pivotal importance to economic growth and financial development. Against the background of continuing merger activity in the US and European banking sectors, this thesis (i) compares the performance implications of bank …
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The impacts of bank mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on bank behaviour
This thesis examines the impact of bank mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on lending behaviour by commercial banks. We use the data set of large European commercial banks from 1997 to 2005. Empirical models are formulated to explain the effects of mergers on bank loan pricing behaviour, interest …
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Banking in Lebanon : an empirical investigation of performance, capitalisation and mergers
… thesis investigates three aspects of Lebanese banking: Bank Perfonnance, Bank Capital and Bank Mergers. The first chapter tackles the issue of bank perfonnance, with focus on the differences between domestic and foreign banks. We study panel data of almost the entire population of Lebanese …
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The Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions on Bank Risks
This thesis examines the effects of bank mergers on acquiring banks' default risk and on their contributions to systemic risk using an international merger sample, covering the period between 1998 and 2015. Furthermore, it investigates whether the changes in acquirers’ default risk after …
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Short-Term, Long-Term, and Efficiency Impacts of Recent Mergers and Acquisitions in the U.S. Banking Industry
This dissertation examines the wealth effects of bank mergers on bidder, target, and combined firm shareholders for a sample of 785 mergers during the period 1980-2000. The dissertation employs two unique bank event study methodologies to calculate abnormal returns for bidder, target and combined …
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Essays is bank competition and credit policy
… first essay uses heterogeneous exposure to large bank mergers to estimate the eect of bank competition on both financial and real variables in local Brazilian markets. Using detailed administrative data on loans and firms, we employ a difference-in-differences empirical strategy to identify the …
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Essays in real estate and finance
… The first chapter studies the effects of bank competition on bank risk-taking and lending. Using a quasi-experimental design that exploits the exogenous application of bank antitrust laws following bank mergers, I show that bank competition leads to more loans going to larger and safer …
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Essays on banking
… that investigate two important issues in banking of the past decade: the effect of banking consolidation on the borrowers and the regulatory capital requirements for banks. The first chapter analyzes the effect of bank mergers on loan prices, and the welfare implications for borrowers. In …
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The short-term market reaction to U.S. bank M&As
… short-term shareholder wealth effects to U.S. bank mergers and acquisitions (M&As) that were announced and completed between 1989 and 2004. Using various event windows, the cumulative abnormal returns (CARs) to target firms are positive, bidder firm abnormal returns are negative, and the …
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ESSAYS ON THE REAL EFFECTS OF FINANCIAL FRICTIONS
… is lower in areas with better developed banking systems. A quantitative model with heterogeneous households, occupational choice, financial frictions, and trade can rationalize these empirical findings. The second essay explores how credit market competition affects consumer bankruptcies. …
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A perspective on the impact of the Deposit Taking Institutions Act on banks in South Africa
… of this mini-thesis is to show that the new banking legislation, which was implemented in South Africa in February 1991, as the Deposit Taking Institutions Act of 1990 [hereinafter "DTl"], encouraged the trend towards larger financial institutions in South Africa. A further aim of this thesis …
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Why Do Banks Participate in a FDIC Failed Bank Auction? A study on both winning and non-winning bidders’ performance
… Crisis provides a great opportunity to study banking mergers, especially ones with failed targets and government assistance. In our study, we adopt multiple approaches to study two main questions. First, we are interested to learn if mergers lead to real economic synergies for combined …
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Anàlisi econòmica de la plaça financera andorrana: possibles fusions bancàries
El meu treball d'anàlisi i investigació vol aclarir si la fusió és l'única alternativa inevitable per assegurar la viabilitat dels grans bancs andorrans. El sector financer del Principat es troba en una situació plena d'incerteses i indecisions i vull conèixer de primera mà les diferents posicions …