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study reveals that the bank-specific factors are the most influential on banks’ profitability, and to a lesser extent the … addition to financial inclusion indicators, We include bank-specific factors and macroeconomic variables into the analysis. The … adequacy ratio, the credit growth for the banking sector, the real GDP growth rate, and the inflation rate on banks’ earnings …
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This paper examines the profit testing of life insurance companies that issue participating policies, type B and type A universal life policies, and variable annuities with guaranteed minimum maturity and death benefits, when investment returns are stochastic and modeled by normal or variance...
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This paper investigates the relationship between capital account openness and inflation since the 1980s. It argues that … financial integration and inflation. It tests the prediction of the theoretical model by employing static and dynamic panel data …
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choices matter for output volatility and the medium-term level of inflation. Greater monetary independence is associated with … associated with a higher level of inflation while greater exchange rate stability and greater financial openness could lower the … inflation rate. We find that trilemma policy configurations affect output volatility through the investment or trade channel …
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inflation, particularly in the 1970s, and the choice of an exchange rate regime consistent with domestic monetary and fiscal … reminiscent of the global inflation generated by the weak dollar in the 1970s. …
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Successful economic development to a large extent derives from the mobilization of underemployed resources. Demand policy can play an important role. It is critical, however, to consider balance of payments constraints and to ensure an expansion of investment in the modern sector. A combination...
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This paper presents a conceptual framework for explaining credit union (CU) loan delinquency and profitability in …
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Long-run differentials in interindustrial profitability are relevant for several areas of theoretical and applied …
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) and higher market concentration in the banking sector had a positive effect on bank profitability, while, surprisingly … as disintermediation, internationalization and privatization, on the profitability of banks. Several proxies based on … bank balance sheet data at the micro level as well as macroeconomic variables are used to capture these changes. The case …
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profitability of the merged entity and to stand-alone profits, and we investigate the extent to which this private information makes …
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