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Cross-Border Bank Mergers and Acquisitions: What Factors Pull and Push Banks Together?

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  • Dongyun Lin

    (Department of Business Management, SUNY Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, NY 11735, USA)

  • James Barth

    (Department of Finance, 303 Lowder Business Building, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5342, USA)

  • John Jahera

    (Department of Finance, 303 Lowder Business Building, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5342, USA)

  • Keven Yost

    (Department of Finance, 303 Lowder Business Building, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5342, USA)

Abstract

This paper evaluates factors that encourage or impede cross-border mergers and acquisitions in banking. The effects of bank specific features, as well as bank regulatory factors, from both target and acquiring banks' perspectives, are estimated. Three comprehensive databases are combined to provide a unique dataset to study cross-border merger and acquisition activities of banks. Banking sector regulatory variables included make this study among the first to empirically and comprehensively analyze the interrelationship between bank regulation and cross-border bank mergers and acquisitions. The results indicate that both bank characteristics and country specific characteristics are important determinants of banks' cross-border merger and acquisition activities.

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  • Dongyun Lin & James Barth & John Jahera & Keven Yost, 2013. "Cross-Border Bank Mergers and Acquisitions: What Factors Pull and Push Banks Together?," Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (RPBFMP), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 16(04), pages 1-23.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:rpbfmp:v:16:y:2013:i:04:n:s0219091513500227
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219091513500227
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    Keywords

    Banking; bank mergers; cross-border mergers; global banking; G21; G28; G34;
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    JEL classification:

    • G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
    • G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
    • G3 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance

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