To improve the understanding of bank profitability in Nigeria, this study sought to econometrically analyze the relationship between political affiliation and bank profitability. Using a panel data set comprising 115 observations of 14 unique banks over the last democratic dispensation...

Cooperation among savings and cooperative banks was criticized by the European Commission because of potentially anti-competitive effects. In an industrial economics model of banks taking deposits and giving loans we look at regional demarcation as one of such cooperative practices. There are...