deposit insurance, namely avoiding banking crises and protecting small depositors. The paper also addresses the related … model identifies the sources of market failure that may justify banking regulation. …

protectionist practices by pointing to the different banking business lines and the responses provided by market participants. …

. Especially, with a performance perspective: does diversification beyond “traditional” banking result in actual diversification of … Holding Companies (BHC) and, consistently with the return of banks to more customer-centric activities, distinguish banking …. After assessing the performance profile of banking activities on a stand-alone basis, we find that the addition of …

The research shows that banking relationships are important to lending. However, few studies focus on the banking … whether banking relationships help firms to benefit from better terms for syndicated loans in a chaotic financial environment …

level, the research then turns to the estimation of the performance, owing to the environment, of "traditional" banking … services, and prudent interest rate mismatch strategies, improve performance related to traditional banking services alone …