Conventional wisdom in banking argues that diversification tends to reduce bank risk and improve performance, but the … diversification strategies and the risk-return tradeoff in banking. Our data set covers Russian banks during the 1999-2006 period and … recent financial crisis suggests that aggressive diversification strategies may have resulted in increased risk taking and …

effect varies across banking crises, market crises, and normal times that occurred in the U.S. over the past quarter century … all times (during banking crises, market crises, and normal times). Second, capital enhances the performance of medium and … large banks primarily during banking crises. Additional tests explore channels through which capital generates the …

effect varies across banking crises, market crises, and normal times that occurred in the US over the past quarter century … all times (during banking crises, market crises, and normal times). Second, capital enhances the performance of medium and … large banks primarily during banking crises. Additional tests explore channels through which capital generates these effects …

This paper investigates the effects of focus versus diversification on bank performance using data on Chinese banks … during the 1996-2006 period. We construct a new measure, economies of diversification, and compare the results to those of …. Diversification is captured in four dimensions: loans, deposits, assets, and geography. We find that all four dimensions of …

This paper investigates the effects of focus versus diversification on bank performance using data on Chinese banks … during the 1996-2006 period. We construct a new measure, economies of diversification, and compare the results to those of …. Diversification is captured in four dimensions: loans, deposits, assets, and geography. We find that all four dimensions of …

Conventional wisdom in banking argues that diversification tends to reduce bank risk and improve performance, but the … diversification strategies and the risk-return tradeoff in banking. Our data set covers Russian banks during the 1999-2006 period and … recent financial crisis suggests that aggressive diversification strategies may have resulted in increased risk taking and …

This paper investigates the effects of focus versus diversification on bank performance using data on Chinese banks … during the 1996-2006 period. We construct a new measure, economies of diversi-fication, and compare the results to those of …. Diversification is captured in four dimensions: loans, deposits, assets, and geography. We find that all four dimensions of …

outcomes in banking. We test if these factors increase the probability that the appointee to an executive board is an outsider … educational backgrounds affect tenure differently across the banking sectors. Maintaining more contacts to the executive board … reduces tenure. We also find weak evidence that social ties are associated with reduced profitability, consistent with …