Anastasiou, Dimitrios; Giannoulakis, Stelios; … - 2022
economic sentiment on European banks’ profitability during the 1995–2019 period. We find that a greater shock in economic … sentiment leads to a persistent and gradually amplified stimulation of banks’ profitability. Our findings extend previous … evidence on the determinants of bank profitability and have important policy implications. First, macroprudential policymakers …