Using a novel database containing the time-series details of the organizational structure of individual bank holding … prevailing "modal bank" are better off compared with those pursuing generic diversification. Moreover, we find that early …

The development of market-based finance and amendments to regulation on bank powers have supported a larger involvement … preventive bank restructurings involving creditors. Scrutiny of banks' soundness increases. Together with the recent … date, such an influence is not explored beyond financial risks. We use granular data from a large panel of US Bank Holding …

curves and an inability to offer deposit rates significantly below zero combine to compress bank earnings in this environment …

individual bank's productivities at collecting deposits and making loans. We relate these measures to bank market values and find … that variation in deposit productivity explains the majority of cross-sectional variation in bank value. We show that …

income diversification and market concentration are related to bank stability. Firstly, we document that bank stability is …-traditional activities. Secondly, market concentration is positively associated with bank stability, in line with the concentration … concentration modifies the link between revenue diversification and bank stability. Specifically, it is shown that diversified banks …

concentration and capital are related to bank stability. We find that banks operating in more concentrated banking markets tend to … that market concentration might enhance the positive effect of capital on bank stability. The findings should be important … for policymakers, bank managers, and fund providers for banks to uphold bank stability in the less developed financial …

This study investigates how market concentration (MC) and institutional quality (IQ) influence bank stability in … and endogeneity. The findings of the research are noteworthy. Firstly, a positive correlation between bank stability and … concentration enhances bank stability up to a certain threshold. Secondly, the study highlights the significant impact of …

A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization … indeed increases bank efficiency. Second, building on these results, we examine the relation between the Boone indicator … bank soundness. We find evidence that competition robustly increases bank soundness, via the efficiency channel …