substitute channel, and the credit-enhancement channel plays an important role in bank loan sales …

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 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 …

We develop a new identification strategy to evaluate the impact of the geographic expansion of bank holding company … (BHC) assets across U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) on BHC risk. We find that the geographic expansion of bank ….e., MSAs with different industrial structures and business cycles. We do not find that geographic diversification improves loan …

banking system penetration promotes financial inclusion-notably, access to bank credit and to formal credit. The results of …

lawyers as bank directors. That rise has been precipitous, raising the question of why lawyer-directors now sit on most bank … management and significant increases in bank value. In particular, banks with lawyer-directors assume more risk in ordinary (non … face today. They are also more likely to make complex information, sourced from multiple experts, more accessible to a bank …