bond returns are high. At the bank level, bondholdings correlate negatively with subsequent lending during sovereign …

sectoral business cycle sensitivity affected corporate profitability during the recovery period of the global financial crisis … (GFC). Using cross-sectional analyses, our findings indicate that corporate profitability improved significantly after the … be significant in explaining changes in corporate profitability …

We analyze how bank profitability impacts financial stability from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. We … first develop a theoretical model of the relationship between bank profitability and financial stability by exploring the … empirical determinants of bank risks and profitability, and how the level and the source of bank profitability affect risks for …

conditional profitability distributions. Real GDP growth and the NPL ratio are shown to be the most reliable determinants of bank …This paper explores the determinants of profitability across large euro area banks using a novel approach based on … profitability. However, the estimated conditional distributions reveal that, while higher growth would raise profits on average, a …

effects on profitability, and discusses policy options to facilitate a consolidation process that is as effective as possible …. A bottom-up analysis of 386 Italian banks suggests that while profitability is expected to improve as the economy … profitability. Banking system consolidation can play a role in facilitating such efficiency gains, but its effectiveness is likely …

This paper reviews the empirical relationships between credit growth, economic recovery, and bank profitability in … underperformance. Bank lending has been subdued as well, but this appears to have only held back the recovery relatively moderately. A … 10 percent increase in bank credit to the private sector is associated with a rise of 0.6-1 percent in real GDP and 2-2 1 …

The paper investigates EU banks' profitability through the recent financial cycle using banklevel balance sheet and … stable over the financial cycle, including post-crisis, and there is no clear evidence that aspects of bank business model …, such as higher reliance on fees and commission income, were associated with better profitability post-crisis …

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 …