diversification strategies and the risk-return tradeoff in banking. Our data set covers Russian banks during the 1999-2006 period and … finds somewhat mixed results. Specifically, we find that banks’ performance tends to be non-monotonically related to their … decreased risk only up to a certain threshold. Additionally, when foreign ownership is either very high or very low, banks tend …

This paper investigates the effects of focus versus diversification on bank performance using data on Chinese banks … diversification and performance. Furthermore, we observe that banks with foreign ownership (both majority and minority ownership) and … banks with conglomerate affiliation are associated with fewer diseconomies of diversification, suggesting that foreign …