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 …

In this paper, we show the benefits of bank asset diversification for the economy. A more diversified stream of … positive spillovers to the economy. We demonstrate that this diversification-induced lending resiliency is beneficial during … the financial crisis, when maintaining credit availability is of paramount importance. We use changes in bank regulation …