. This paper investigates whether diversification influences banks' investment (credit) policy and profitability. Diversified … banks appear to benefit from “coinsurance,” supply more credit, and seem more profitable. However, diversification does not … contributes to the current debate on the optimal scope of bank activities, and highlights novel channels through which …

- and medium-sized bank stocks. I am to unable to replicate this finding despite many different empirical choices in my …

Using unique data on over-the-counter bank stock prices and balance sheet information we explore bank funding cost … largest commercial bank stocks, ranked by market value or gross deposits, have significant lower risk-adjusted annual returns … than do small sized bank stocks even after controlling for standard risk factors including size. This return difference is …

The largest commercial bank stocks, ranked by the 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 …