, allows us estimating the socio-demographic determinants of retail profitability. Using a simulation model, we are able to … predict the development of bank profitability due to demographic shifts up to 2025. One of the main findings is that the … the population reduces the customer base, ageing per se increases profitability as older customers typically generate …

simultaneously risen in most countries. Moreover, the gross profitability of firms seems to be lower in high-tax countries, even …

In this paper we compare the profitability of a merger to the profitability of a partial ownership arrangement and find …

quantitatively large. Our findings suggest that the profitability gap is partly driven by agency costs which arise if value … communication and travel costs over the last decade, the profitability gap is shown to decline over time. Apart from that, our … profitability gap. We discuss various implications of our findings …