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    The aim of the paper is to study the relationship between banking performance and earnings management. Our study focuses on 54 U.S. bank mergers and covers the period 1998-2004. We use the efficiency-frontier analysis to measure banking performance, specifically the stochastic-frontier analysis.
 
      
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