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 …

contributes to the understanding of not only the targeting itself, but also the implicit linkage between bank ownership and risk … taking. In addition, it offers insights to policy makers in terms of bank regulation …

The paper examines how loan portfolio diversification drives bank returns, mainly focusing on the conditioning roles of … increased sectoral loan portfolio diversification reduces bank returns, but not all banks are equally affected. Banks that … adopted a business model towards non-interest activities are hurt less from loan portfolio diversification, and bank market …

, board independence, number of board meetings, and CEO duality with stock performance measured by the bank's share price and … market-to-book ratio. Further, several control variables were utilized such as the bank's capital adequacy, profitability …, and size. The empirical findings reveal that board independence positively affects the bank stock performance while the …

fact, the largest when the bank is foreign. Our evidence suggest that investors value relationships with more competitive … applicable also to the European markets where regulatory and economic borders do not coincide and bank identities and reputation … seem to matter a great deal. -- Relationship banking ; bank organization ; bank origin ; loan announcement return …