Advocates of diversifying bank income sources often argue that diversification improves the resilience of banks during … periods of distress. To test this proposition, we analyze the impact of income diversification on the performance of Italian … banks during the recent financial crisis. Using detailed data on the composition of bank income, we show that institutions …

superior performance levels. Additionally, we find that bank diversification is conducive to performance but only during the …

diversification of frontier and emerging economy (FEE) banks. It additionally, explores the effect of banking sector depth and … the adoption of focused strategy by banks. Similarly, income diversification activities are driven by competition, banking … sector depth, the state of the economy and bank performance. Additionally, risk-taking behavior, banking sector depth and the …

While the traditional banking theory and portfolio theory favour diversification strategy for better performance the … between sectoral loan diversification and the banks' performance. This paper empirically investigates the relationship between … the sectoral diversification and the performance of Sri Lankan domestic licensed commercial banks over the period of 2008 …

diseconomies of diversification vanish the farther is the bank in the pyramid so that the farthest banks enjoy economies of …We empirically test whether banks' ownership network affects the relationship between product diversification and … performance for a sample of European commercial banks. We measure banks' ownership network by the distance between the bank and …