Abdennour, Faouzi; Khediri, Karim Ben - In: International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance 3 (2010) 4, pp. 316-329
Using a panel of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) banks, we examine the effect of on bank profitability in the 1999-2006 period. We find that supervision differences matter. Bank profitability tends to be higher in countries in which supervisors can take legal action against external auditors...
