Financial intermediation is low in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) compared to other regions of the world. This paper examines … the determinants of bank interest margins using a sample of 456 banks in 41 SSA countries. The results show that market … concentration is positively associated with interest margins, but the impact depends on the level of efficiency of each bank. In …

.S. monetary policy to liability rates than to asset rates and bank profitability, largely reflecting funding structures. In … in the GCC. We use bank-level panel data, exploiting variation across banks within countries, to isolate the impact of … changing U.S. interest rates on GCC banks funding costs, asset rates, and profitability. We find stronger pass-through from U …

In this paper, we use a bank-level panel dataset to investigate the determinants of bank interest margins in the … extensions to assess the extent to which high spreads of banks in the CCA can be related to bank-specific variables, to … risk, bank size, bank diversification, banking sector competition, and macroeconomic policies; but the impact depends on …

orientation, pressures on funding models and entity structures could affect the efficiency of capital flows through the bank …

a tax onshadow bank profits …

comparator block in the Eastern Caribbean. Using bank-level data, we find that countries with a high level of operating costs, a … operating costs are associated with low measures of institutional quality and a small size of bank operations. We find support …