Bank management in bank decline: Bank mergers as a recovery recipe?

Analysis of Bank Mergers

The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas currently has no way to tell what characteristics of a bank make it conducive to forming a successful merger. Further, they are unable to predict what types of mergers will be successful. It has been our goal to develop a model that will determine which types of mergers will be most successful, and what characteristics of a bank promote that success. The appro...

Bank Mergers , the Market for Bank CEOs , and Managerial Incentives *

Compensation of bank CEOs increases after mergers, suggesting that executives may engage in acquisitions to enjoy size-related personal benefits (Bliss and Rosen, 2001). Alternatively, bank mergers can be viewed as the efficient assignation of merged assets to the managerial team best suited to realize merger gains. Theories of executive compensation based on managerial productivity and optimal...

Bank mergers, competition and liquidity

We provide a model of the impact of bank mergers on loan competition, individual reserve management and aggregate liquidity risk. Banks hold reserves against liquidity shocks, refinance in the interbank market and compete in a differentiated loan market. A merger creates an internal money market that induces financial cost advantages and may increase reserve holdings. We assess the liquidity ri...

Horizontal Bank Mergers : Issues and

Accounting for distress in bank mergers

The inability of most bank merger studies to control for hidden bailouts may lead to biased results. In this study, we employ a unique data set of approximately 1,000 mergers to analyze the determinants of bank mergers. We use data on the regulatory intervention history to distinguish between distressed and non-distressed mergers. We find that, among merging banks, distressed banks had the wors...