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

diversification index to account for complexity, we find robust evidence consistent with mispricing among the most diversified large …

investigated whether the diversification of banks' asset items has a financial impact on the risk level. In this context, panel … Sector for the period 2008-2017, and the relationship between banks' asset diversification and riskiness was investigated …

employed a dynamic Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) model to estimate the impact of diversification on bank stability. Two … three dimensions of diversification, namely; functional, geographic and loan-portfolio diversification, improve bank …We study the concurrent impact of functional, geographic and loan portfolio diversification on the stability of …