This paper examines the relationship between diversification and financial performance of community credit unions in Korea from 2011 to 2017. To do so, I employ fixed-effects panel analyses using credit union level panel data collected from the National Credit Union Federation of Korea. This study finds evidence that business diversification is likely to lower the ratio of troubled loans, which means improving asset quality of credit unions. However, the relationship between diversification and asset quality is not linear but nonlinear, which means over-diversification would have negative effects on asset quality. Next, diversification tends to increase profitability. Specifically, although diversification results in a rise in expenditures, an increase in profits made by diversification outweighs the rise in expenditures, which contributes to profitability. Put together, diversification would be a good business strategy to improve both profitability and asset quality. Given a result that fast loan growth deteriorates asset quality, credit unions’ managers might adopt the diversification strategy to enhance asset quality, and not to pursue their own objectives motivated by moral hazards.
Abstract
Ⅰ. 서론
Ⅱ. 자기자본비용 추정 모형
Ⅲ. 블룸버그 서비스의 자기자본비용 추정
Ⅳ. 국제자본비용모형에 의한 한국기업의 자기자본비용의 추정
Ⅴ. 결론
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