nonfinancial industries into hypothetical portfolios using industry-level profitability data calculated from corporate tax returns … authors stress that bank management contemplating diversification into the commercial sector must be selective about which …

We investigate the relationship between outsourcing and profitability paying particular attention to the endogeneity of …

This paper presents some ideas about determinants of merger waves and some evidence on their effect on profitability … that sectoral shocks are at the root of merger waves. Deregulation and globalization are identified as the shocks … responsible for the latest wave. The impact of merger activities on profitability and employment growth are studied by using the …

volatility of growth and profitability are bank-size dependent, and (iii) the relationship between growth and profitability of a … evidence of persistence in bank growth. However, our findings suggest significant persistence in bank profitability. Moreover …This paper investigates (i) whether growth and profitability persist in banking firms, (ii) whether the level and …

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 …

a large, unbalanced panel of German banks including 32,023 bank-year observations. We see an increase in the use of GBR …