“…According to previous literature, we focus on covariates which proxy size (Barth et al, 2023;Berger and Bouwman, 2013;Chernykh, 2014;Clark et al, 2018;Mare, 2015), capitalization (Dietrich and Wanzenried, 2014), credit quantity and quality (Abreu and Mendes, 2001;Demirguc Kunt and Huizinga, 2000;Goddard et al, 2013), operational efficiency (Dietrich and Wanzenried, 2014;Goddard et al, 2013;Molyneux and Thorton, 1992), income diversification (Berger et al, 2010a;Berger et al, 2010b;De Young and Rice, 2004a;De Young and Rice, 2004b;Kohler, 2014;Kohler, 2015;Lepetit et al, 2008;Mergaerts and Vander Vennet, 2016;Paltrinieri et al, 2021;Rossi et al, 2020;Stiroh 2004;Stiroh and Rumble, 2006) and funding strategies (Chiorazzo et al, 2018;Lopez-Penabad et al, 2022;Mare, 2015).…”