Conventional wisdom in banking argues that diversification tends to reduce bank risk and improve performance, but the … to benefit more from being diversified. This analysis provides important strategic and policy implications for bank …

and turbulence accompanied by repeated bank crises. However, governments in many transition countries learned from these … tumultuous experiences and eventually dealt successfully with the accumulated bad loans and lack of strong bank regulation. In … addition, rapid progress in bank privatization and consolidation took place in the late 1990s and early 2000s, usually with the …

This paper investigates the effects of focus versus diversification on bank performance using data on Chinese banks … bank managers and regulators in China as well as in other emerging economies …

and turbulence accompanied by repeated bank crises. However, governments in many transition countries learned from these … tumultuous experiences and eventually dealt successfully with the accumulated bad loans and lack of strong bank regulation. In … addition, rapid progress in bank privatization and consolidation took place in the late 1990s and early 2000s, usually with the …

Using data from 1996 to 2000, we investigate the effects of ownership, especially by a strategic foreign owner, on bank … variables with dummy variables for ownership type, a variable controlling for bank size, and dummy variables for year and …, especially country effects, and also suggest a preference for efficiency measures over financial measures of bank performance in …