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What are the Determinants of Mergers and Acquisitions in Banking?

In: New Issues in Financial Institutions Management

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  • Elena Beccalli
  • Pascal Frantz

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This study investigates the determinants of the likelihood of being involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in banking. Given that the M&A market has been especially active in banking, the main aim here is to test whether it is possible to predict ex ante potential acquirers and targets on the basis of a set of bank specific and regulatory/institutional characteristics. We suggest that significant implications follow. Professional investors in the secondary markets would have at their disposal a method of identifying firms more likely to be targets and acquirers, and hence to select the stocks to be included in their portfolios. Managers in the banking industry would have a way to identify the probability of running into an M&A operation, and therefore to put in place mechanisms to favour or to block it.

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  • Elena Beccalli & Pascal Frantz, 2010. "What are the Determinants of Mergers and Acquisitions in Banking?," Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions, in: Franco Fiordelisi & Philip Molyneux & Daniele Previati (ed.), New Issues in Financial Institutions Management, chapter 10, pages 171-199, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:pmschp:978-0-230-29915-3_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230299153_11
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