Small European banks: Benefits from diversification?

By Steve Mercieca, K. Schaeck, S. Wolfe. 2007

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Banking Competition and Capital Ratios (2007, neutral): “Virtually all banks today are subject to minimum regulatory capital requirements (and all the European banks in our sample face a uniform minimum capital requirement for regulatory capital of at least eight percent of risk-weighted assets).”
The diversification and financial performance of US credit unions. (2008, background): “…Rice, 2004a,b,c; Stiroh, 2004a,b; Calmes and Liu, 2005; Landskroner et al., 2005; Acharya et al., 2006; Stiroh, 2006; Stiroh and Rumble, 2006; Carbo-Valverde and Fernandez, 2007; Laeven and Levine, 2007; Lepetit et al., 2007; Mercieca et al., 2007; 0378-4266/$ - see front matter 2007 Elsevier B.V.”
What Determines the Profitability of Banks? Evidence from Spain (2013, neutral): “Several recent studies adopt this premise, such as Alexiou and Sofoklis (2009), Iannotta et al. (2007) and Mercieca et al. (2007).”
Is Bank Income Diversification Beneficial? Evidence from an Emerging Economy (2013, neutral): “Mercieca et al. (2007) find that small European banks do not benefit from diversification.”
Intra- and extra-bank determinants of Latin American Banks' profitability (2016, background): “For instance, Mercieca, Schaeck, and Wolfe (2007), Wall and Eisenbeis (1984), DeYoung and Roland (2001), Berger, Hasan, and Zhou (2010), Demirgüç-Kunt et al. (2004), among others, find that banks do not benefit from diversification.”
Islamic Banks and Financial Stability: An Empirical Analysis (2010, neutral): “The threshold is arbitrary, but it has been used in previous research on small banks (e.g., Mercieca et al. 2007 ), and, more importantly, the main results of our analysis are not sensitive with respect to moderate changes in the threshold.”
Which Banks Are More Risky? The Impact of Business Models on Bank Stability (2015, result): “Mercieca et al. (2007) obtain similar findings for a sample of small European banks.”
Can Banks in Emerging Economies Benefit from Revenue Diversification? (2011, positive): “According to Goddard et al. (2008) this is due to their expertise and technological advancement in effectively diversify away from their core product of loan provision, the benefits of diversification for small banks are virtually non-existent for the same reasons even in European banks ( Mercieca e”