Effects of US Bank Mergers on Bank Risk and Value

By Ingo Forbriger

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1,3, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut f?r Bank- und B?rsenwesen), course: Hauptseminar Finanzierung, language: English, abstract: This paper observes the impacts of domestic US commercial bank M&As in the 1990s on individual institutions. It shows potential changes in a bank's risk exposure and how these can affect a merged bank's value. It provides a theoretical consideration as well as a review of empirical studies. The result is that a merger might lead to a risk benefit. In this case, there is, c.p., potential for a value increase. Empirically, risk benefits were either absent or offset by managers' higher risk taking.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3638668185
• ISBN13: 9783638668187
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"