regional banks being less cost and revenue efficient relative to both City and Trust banks. While Japanese bank profitability …The paper analyzes the efficiency and profitability of Japanese banks from 2000-06. It uses a non-parametric approach … of Japanese banks has steadily improved since 2001, but there are significant differences within the banking sector, with …

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

This paper analyzes the relationship between oil price shocks and bank profitability. Using data on 145 banks in 11 oil …-exporting MENA countries for 1994-2008, we test hypotheses of direct and indirect effects of oil price shocks on bank profitability …. Our results indicate that oil price shocks have indirect effect on bank profitability, channeled through country …

bank net interest margins. Combined with resilient asset quality, wider net interest margins supported record profits for …

of the new bank taxes—in terms of their tax base, rate, duration, and burden. The paper discusses several trade-offs in … the design of bank taxes and argues that an alternative or complementary policy response to temporarily high bank profits … is to lock them in as usable bank capital, for example through an increase in countercyclical capital buffer rates …

This study finds that equity returns in the banking sector in the wake of the Great Recession and the European … deteriorating funding conditions and investor sentiment. While the equity return performance in the banking sector has been dismal … policymakers’ efforts to strengthen bank capitalization. …

We study the effects of a bank's engagement in trading. Traditional banking is relationship-based: not scalable, long …-based: scalable, shortterm, capital constrained, and with the ability to generate risk from concentrated positions. When a bank … inefficiencies. A bank may allocate too much capital to trading ex-post, compromising the incentives to build relationships ex …

smaller bank size. Overall, we find that concentrated market structures and lack of competition in LICs banking systems and … at the bank level, we find that within LICs a substantial part of the variation in interest margins can be explained by … bank-specific factors: margins tend to increase with higher riskiness of credit portfolio, lower bank capitalization, and …

weaknesses in bank balance sheets, consumption-led economic growth, and relatively high net interest margins. Bank-level analysis … suggests that interest margins in the Philippines rise with bank size, bank capitalization, foreign ownership, overhead costs … and tax rates. Using bank-level data for a number of Asian economies, we find that higher growth, lower inflation, higher …