Ruiz-Mallorquí, María Victoria; Aguiar-Díaz, Inmaculada - In: The Service Industries Journal 26 (2006) 7, pp. 801-817
This study analyses the possible reasons for banks deciding to invest in firm equity, based on the fundamentals of the strategic diversification literature. Those fundamentals suggest that it may be in response to the negative evolution of other aspects of banking business, namely, credit...