Bank Activity and Funding Strategies
Author | : Asli Demirgüç-Kunt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2009 |
ISBN-10 | : LCCN:2009655592 |
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Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book Bank Activity and Funding Strategies written by Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This paper examines the implications of bank activity and short-term funding strategies for bank risk and returns using an international sample of 1,334 banks in 101 countries leading up to the 2007 financial crisis. Expansion into non-interest income generating activities such as trading increases the rate of return on assets, and it may offer some risk diversification benefits at very low levels. Non-deposit, wholesale funding, by contrast, lowers the rate of return on assets, although it can offer some risk reduction at commonly observed low levels of non-deposit funding. A sizeable proportion of banks, however, attract most of their short-term funding in the form of non-deposits at a cost of enhanced bank fragility. Overall, banking strategies that rely prominently on generating non-interest income or attracting non-deposit funding are very risky, which is consistent with the demise of the U.S. investment banking sector."--World Bank web site.