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This paper studies the impact of European bank mergers and acquisitions on changes in key safety and soundness measures of both acquirers and targets. We find that capitalization, profi tability and liquidity show signs of statistically and economically significant mean reversion for acquirers. Also, acquirers in cross-border deals tended to perform better when their home country prudential supervisors and deposit insurance funding systems were stricter than the target‘s. For target banks, the most consistent findings from the crosssectional regressions are that stronger supervision and tougher deposit insurance funding regimes tend to result in positive post-merger changes in liquidity and performance

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Paper provided by Banco de España in its series Banco de España Working Papers with number 1236.

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Length: 50 pages
Date of creation: Oct 2012
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Handle: RePEc:bde:wpaper:1236

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Keywords: banks; mergers; Europe;

Find related papers by JEL classification:

• G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
• G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
• G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

• NEP-ALL-2012-10-20 (All new papers)
• NEP-BAN-2012-10-20 (Banking)
• NEP-COM-2012-10-20 (Industrial Competition)
• NEP-EEC-2012-10-20 (European Economics)

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