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

Dongyun Lin (), James Barth, John Jahera () and Keven Yost ()
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Dongyun Lin: Department of Business Management, SUNY Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, NY 11735, 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

Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (RPBFMP), 2013, vol. 16, issue 04, 1-23

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.

Keywords: Banking; bank mergers; cross-border mergers; global banking; G21; G28; G34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G1 G2 G3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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