The paper focuses on the impact of diversification on bank performance and how consolidation through mergers and … indigenous banks, as compared to foreign competitors in the ECCU. We then simulate bank mergers both within and across ECCU … countries by combining individual banks' balance sheets. The simulation shows that a typical indigenous bank could better …

This paper analyzes the evolution of bank funding structures in the run up to the global financial crisis and studies … the implications for financial stability, exploiting a bank-level dataset that covers about 11,000 banks in the U.S. and …-crisis period were more likely to fail afterward. The likelihood of bank failure also increases with bank risk-taking. In the cross …