Are the Financial Characteristics of Acquired Banks Similar Across the EU? Evidence from the Principal Markets

Posted: 27 Jan 2007 Last revised: 28 Sep 2012

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Fotios Pasiouras

GSCM-Montpellier Business School

Chrysovalantis Gaganis

University of Crete - Faculty of Social Sciences - Department of Economics

Date Written: September 27, 2012

Abstract

We use a sample of acquired and non-acquired commercial banks from the principal EU markets and logistic regression analysis to investigate the relationship between bank characteristics and the likelihood to be acquired. The results indicate the existence of differences across countries either in terms of the significance of the variables or the sign of their coefficients.

Keywords: Acquisitions, Banks, EU

JEL Classification: G21, G34

Suggested Citation

Pasiouras, Fotios and Gaganis, Chrysovalantis, Are the Financial Characteristics of Acquired Banks Similar Across the EU? Evidence from the Principal Markets (September 27, 2012). Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16 (6), 619-623, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=959438

Fotios Pasiouras (Contact Author)

GSCM-Montpellier Business School ( email )

2300, Avenue des Moulins
Montpellier, 34185
France

Chrysovalantis Gaganis

University of Crete - Faculty of Social Sciences - Department of Economics ( email )

University Campus
Rethymno, Crete, 74100
Greece

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