We provide evidence on the potential for bidder wealth gains in bancassurance mergers by
examining a sample of such mergers in the United States and abroad. These combinations …

The European market of banks and insurance companies has traditionally no exact
boundaries between insurance and banking activities. Such business arena poses …

Bancassurance has enjoyed considerable success in Europe, but this concept is relatively
new for Asian countries, having emerged only in 2002. Thus, the aim of this paper is to …

The current study reviews the risk financing techniques employed in the insurance markets
and looks at the changing field of the risk management arena. The overarching view is that …

We investigate the return and volatility interdependencies among the US, the UK, the EU,
and Japanese banks and insurers during the period of 2003 to 2009. We find strong return …

Organization structure plays an important influence on the elicitation of the desired risk-
taking behavior in banks. Risk taking can be viewed as the susceptibility to problems such …

The purpose of this paper is to look at the main empirical findings related to the bank‐
insurance model and to outline the market practices across the world. The market dynamics …

Bancassurance has rapidly grown in Europe over the past 20 years catching the attention of
managers and academia. Most dedicated studies have only been descriptive in nature …

We investigate the impact of geographic integration and the level of multinationality by
expansion as a foreign branch or representative office on the parent bank performance of 45 …

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 …