Theory of financial intermediation gives contradicting answers to the question whether banks should diversify or focus … point of view, the common practice to rely on measures of concentration only in the debate about diversification and focus … this end we measure diversification for all German banks in the period from 1993 to 2002. As measures we use a broad set of …

This study investigates the diversification of loan portfolio of Central Banks and attempts to research previous work … on loan portfolio diversification and its effects on credit risk. The report collects data on 20 central banks to … central bank …