Exploring key determinant variables that influence bank profitability is of interest to bankers and investors as well as regulators, as profitability is regarded as a necessary condition for the stability of the banking system. In this paper we conducted a study to determine the profitability of...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the importance of bank cost efficiency on capital and risk-taking of banks in six countries in the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) that is, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam. The panel data is...