Acharya, Viral V.; Hasan, Iftekhar; Saunders, Anthony - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2002
We study empirically the effect of focus (specialization) vs. diversification on the return and the risk of banks using data from 105 Italian banks over the period 1993–1999. Specifically, we analyze the tradeoffs between (loan portfolio) focus and diversification using a unique data set that...
