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Diversification and Connections in Banking: First Findings

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
Literature on the diversification of banks usually refers to revenue mix, geographical markets and M&A deals. This chapter aims to fill a gap by investigating diversification in terms of different business combinations (carrying out activities in different client front-end businesses).
Zara, Claudio, Cerrato, Luca
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Geographic diversification in banking

Journal of Financial Stability, 2014
In the aftermath of the 2007-2009 crisis, banks claiming positive diversification benefits are being met with skepticism. Nevertheless, diversification might be important and sizable for some large internationally active banking groups. We use a universally applicable correlation matrix approach to calculate international diversification effects, in ...
Fang, Yiwei, van Lelyveld, Iman
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Diversification in Banking

2015
AbstractOver the last few decades, US commercial banks have expanded dramatically by entering new geographic markets and offering a wider array of financial products. As a result, they are more diversified, but does this diversification improve performance and reduce risk?
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Diversification of the Banking Firm

Financial Review, 1989
AbstractDiversification of banks and bank holding companies into nonbank product lines may reduce the risk to banking returns or cash flows provided appropriate portfolio conditions are satisfied. This study of bank and nonbank financial‐service firms and nonfinancial corporations over the 1966–1985 period finds evidence consistent with the proposition
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Bank diversification and monetary policy

Applied Economics Letters, 2017
Using bank-level data in Asia, we examine the relationship between the effectiveness of monetary policy and the business diversification of banks.
Hiroshi Gunji, Yuan Yuan
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Geographic diversification and risk in banking

Journal of Economics and Business, 1988
Abstract Tests of the hypothesis that geographic diversification affects bank risk are conducted on large samples of banking organizations (1976–1985) and focus on intrastate geographic diversification experience. Three composite measures of risk are included iin the tests along with the individual components of these measures.
Nellie Liang, Stephen A. Rhoades
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Bank diversification and systemic risk

The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2020
Abstract One of the controversies of diversification is that it may not be necessarily beneficial to the banks as it leads to more severe systemic risk. Recent studies have modelled theoretical frameworks for the role of diversification in systemic risks faced by banks. As an alternative, we provide empirical evidence on this by examining the effects
Hsin-Feng Yang, Chih-Liang Liu, Ray Yeutien Chou   +2 more
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Bank diversification, economic diversification? [PDF]

, 2006
Business cycle volatility has fallen in the United States during the past two decades. Trehan (2005) explains some of the possible mechanisms behind our now more stable economy. Some researchers have argued, for instance, that businesses manage inventory better today than in the past, or that innovations in financial markets have helped smooth out ...
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Bank Competition and Export Diversification [PDF]

, 2013
The role of the banking industry in export promotion cannot be over-emphasized as banks provide the necessary financial support for borrowers in various industries to undertake investment activities. With the help of an industry-level dataset on bilateral trade flows between various countries, I consider OLS and IV regressions to determine whether the ...
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Essays on bank diversification

2021
This thesis, which consists of four studies, investigates bank diversification in the context of bank stability, banks’ market power, and bank competition, by constructing new diversification indicators to capture the degree of diversification at the market and country levels.
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