In the present paper an effort will be made to show with panel data that during the period 1997-2008 in European banks as well as the United States ones staff cost as well as entrepreneurial caliber have a positive impact on banking profitability. Data source is O.E.C.D. The elaboration of the...

Schinasi (1997) had asserted that European banks are overstaffed and that they face difficulties to control their staff cost compared to the United States ones. In the present paper an effort will be made to show with panel data that during the period 1997-2007 European banks converge with the...

In the present paper author will try to point out that government debt as a percentage of GDP has a negative impact on stock prices in the long run, while entrepreneurial caliber has a positive effect on stock prices in the long run. Data are annual and cover Western European economies for the...

In the present paper an effort will be made to show with panel data that during the period 1997-2008 in European banks as well as in the United States ones staff cost and entrepreneurial caliber have a positive impact on banking profitability. Data source is O.E.C.D. The elaboration of the model...

In EU (2008-2014, monthly data) regarding the variation of stock returns “January effect” does not matter, while EU follows the USA stock returns and finally southern regions (who are mostly hit by the crisis) tend to have a negative impact on stock returns. The elaboration of panel data...

Bank Profitability, Globalisation and Barriers to Entrepreneurship. A Panel Data Analysis for Europe and the United States (1999-2007) The crux of the present article is that if corporations (as bank clients) are profitable in a globalised economic environment and there are no barriers to...

The crux of the present article is that if corporations (as bank clients) are profitable in a globalised economic environment and there are no barriers to entrepreneurship, banks (as lenders to these corporations) are expected to be profitable too. Thus, our proposed model is a link between...

In the present paper an empirical analysis will point out that regarding primary and secondary education, countries with a higher level of income per head enjoy a better education quality. The sample covers all world. Data are taken from World Bank. The elaboration of these panel data is made...

In the present paper it will be pointed out with a panel data econometric model that taxation on entrepreneurship causes unemployment, but the impact of taxation is not equal among all countries. The estimation of the model is made feasible through the Eviews software package

In the present paper it will be shown empirically that smoking decreases labour productivity. Panel data analysis is based on a single equation model estimated through the Eviews software package. Our sample refers to the period 1993-2008 and covers many western countries, the United States and...