During 2008 and 2009, the insurance industry experienced unprecedented volatility. The
large swings in insurers' market valuations, and the significant role that financial reporting …

We provide the first simulation evidence of event-study test performance in multi-country non-
US samples. The nonparametric rank and generalized sign tests are more powerful than two …

Before the emergence of the crisis, banks' incomes were preponderantly oriented towards
the lending activity, which activity is unsustainable in these circumstances. With the financial …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to be the first to explicate the determinants of
customers' cross‐buying intentions in the banking services of Korea and Taiwan, and then …

We investigate the risk effects of bank acquisitions of insurance companies and securities
firms between 1991 and 2012 using a newly constructed dataset of M&A deals. We examine …

The current study examines the effects on shareholders wealth as a result of the bank–
insurance interface. Using a global sample of financial intermediaries and an event-study …

This paper investigates the sources of growth for the 100 largest Canadian credit unions
(CUs) over the past decade. We identify the existence of diseconomies of scale in growth for …

We investigate the impact of domestic/international bancassurance deals on the risk‐return
profiles of announcing and nonannouncing banks and insurers within a GARCH model …

This paper investigates the impact of marketing channels on the corporate reputation and
profitability of life insurers based on the evidence of bancassurance in Taiwan. The …

We contribute to the current regulatory debate by examining the wealth and risk effects of the
Dodd-Frank Act on US financial institutions. We measure the effects of key legislative events …