loan pricing. The model demonstrates how risks, costs, market concentration and scale economies jointly determine the bank …

-term liabilities. We develop a structural model of a firm's value maximization problem that predicts that profitability of the firm …

harmed by currency depreciations. The evidence regarding the profitability and financial fragility ratios is consistent with … ones: in Asia firms become more fragile after the crisis and their profitability declines and leverage increases further …

controlling for bank specific and macroeconomic determinants of bank profitability. Bank profitability is proxied by return on … significant negative effect on bank profitability only in the long run. Generally, the explanatory variables used in the study … have short run and long run effects on bank profitability, although the impact is not uniform across the different measures …

the empirical relation between efficiency and profitability in five large economies of the European Union during the … period 1998-2005 and discusses the results from the perspective of corporate bank strategy. Methodologically the existing … literature is expanded by the use of DEA super-efficiency values to regress profitability, the incorporation of risk by …

This paper analyses structural and cyclical determinants of banking profitability in 16 Western European countries. We …. The industry concentration of national banking systems, though, does not significantly affect aggregate profitability …. Business cycle effects, in particular lagged GDP growth, display a substantial procyclical impact on bank profits. These …

bank. The results suggest that capital requirements may only be of second-order importance for banks? capital structures …