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 …

The largest commercial bank stocks, ranked by total size of the balance sheet, have significantly lower risk …-adjusted returns than small- and medium-sized bank stocks, even though large banks are significantly more levered. We uncover a size … factor in the component of bank returns that is orthogonal to the standard risk factors, including small-minus-big, which has …

The largest commercial bank stocks, ranked by total size of the balance sheet, have significantly lower risk …-adjusted returns than small- and medium-sized bank stocks, even though large banks are significantly more levered. We uncover a size … factor in the component of bank returns that is orthogonal to the standard risk factors, including small-minus-big, which has …

diversification is not an easy task as it is impacted by a huge number of different factors: the way systematic risk is measured, the … of the asset features, the model adopted to measure diversification (i.e., equally weighted versus optimal allocation …

This study focuses on the diversification benefits of the most developed equity markets of Central and Eastern Europe … (CEE). To evaluate these benefits of diversification we use so-called spanning tests based on a stochastic discount factor …