diversification strategies and the risk-return tradeoff in banking. Our data set covers Russian banks during the 1999-2006 period and … finds somewhat mixed results. Specifically, we find that banks’ performance tends to be non-monotonically related to their … decreased risk only up to a certain threshold. Additionally, when foreign ownership is either very high or very low, banks tend …

Banks are intrinsically fragile because of their role as liquidity providers. This results in under-provision of … liquidity. We analyze the effect of government guarantees on the interconnection between banks' liquidity creation and … likelihood of runs in a model of global games, where banks.and depositors' behavior are endogenous and affected by the amount and …

. Specifically, banks originating from a country that has lower level of trust tend to have lower interbank borrowing. Using a … the network structure of interbank markets. Core banks acting as interbank intermediaries in the network are more …

This paper investigates the effects of focus versus diversification on bank performance using data on Chinese banks …-ternative measures of diversification and performance. Furthermore, we observe that banks with foreign ownership (both majority and … minority ownership) and banks with conglomerate affiliation are associated with fewer diseconomies of diversification …

. Specifically, banks originating from a country that has lower level of trust tend to have lower interbank borrowing. Using a … the network structure of interbank markets. Core banks acting as interbank intermediaries in the network are more …

Banks are intrinsically fragile because of their role as liquidity providers. This results in under-provision of … liquidity. We analyze the effect of government guarantees on the interconnection between banks' liquidity creation and … likelihood of runs in a model of global games, where banks' and depositors' behavior are endogenous and affected by the amount …

This paper investigates the effects of focus versus diversification on bank performance using data on Chinese banks … diversification and performance. Furthermore, we observe that banks with foreign ownership (both majority and minority ownership) and … banks with conglomerate affiliation are associated with fewer diseconomies of diversification, suggesting that foreign …