Bank profits are high in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) compared to other regions. This paper uses a sample of 389 banks in … 41 SSA countries to study the determinants of bank profitability. We find that apart from credit risk, higher returns on … assets are associated with larger bank size, activity diversification, and private ownership. Bank returns are affected by …

bank tax, and the U.S. administration has revived its own proposal for such a charge. This paper considers the structure … for taxing bank borrowing, perhaps as an adjunct to minimum capital requirements, at marginal rates that rise quite … higher than those of the bank taxes so far adopted or proposed. …

costs associated with bank defaults. The distance-to-default, a widely used market-based measure of corporate default risk …

highlighted: (1) the level of bank capitalization; (2) the supervision and regulation of banks; (3) the structure of banking …

affect the likelihood and the timing of bank recovery. Severe regulatory measures increase both the likelihood of recovery … exit the market due to restructuring mergers. Our results remain intact, thus providing no evidence of "bad" bank selection … timing of recovery. Macroeconomic conditions also matter for bank recovery. Hence, concerted micro- and macro …

many open economies, each with a banking system and a central bank operating under a pegged exchange rate regime. The … fragility of the banking system and the limited ability of a domestic central bank to provide international liquidity together …