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Record W4417429712 · doi:10.1002/rfe.70031

Effect of income diversification on Canadian credit union performance: Evidence from long panel

2025· article· en· W4417429712 on OpenAlexaffabout
Abdullah Mamun, Tahasin Reza Khan

Bibliographic record

VenueReview of Financial Economics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicMicrofinance and Financial Inclusion
Canadian institutionsGovernment of SaskatchewanUniversity of Saskatchewan
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEndogeneityDiversification (marketing strategy)Panel dataPermanent income hypothesisFinancial crisis

Abstract

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Abstract We investigate the impact of income diversification on the performance of the largest Canadian CUs using a long panel from 2004 to 2019. We find that non‐interest income enhances the performance of credit unions, both on a risk unadjusted and risk‐adjusted basis. This result is robust to alternative measures of performance, and even when we address endogeneity and persistence of the performance measure using the dynamic panel method. We find that income diversification enhances performance more for larger credit unions compared to smaller credit unions. During the financial crisis period, we find that on average all CUs' performance was affected. But for larger CUs, a higher share of non‐interest income has a 50% less detrimental effect on performance compared to smaller CUs.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.022
Threshold uncertainty score0.094

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.005
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.242
Teacher spread0.217 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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