The paper assesses the main factors underlying the decreasing profitability in the European banking sector, in …

We analyse the impact of standard and non-standard monetary policy measures on bank profitability. For empirical … monetary policies on market-based measures of expected bank profitability and credit risk, by employing an event study analysis … identification, the analysis focuses on the euro area, thereby exploiting substantial bank and country heterogeneity within a …

This investigation starts with the observation that, over the last decade, profitability rates reported by euro area … profitability gap of around 5 percentage points.1 However, while comparisons are frequently made between EA and US banks in academic …-for-like comparison. This paper seeks to identify and analyse the factors behind the profitability gap in a structured manner. We …

This study assesses euro area banks' profitability using granular stress test data from three EU-wide exercises …-adjusted return on assets for the euro area as a whole and for individual countries to assess the profitability of lending activities … profitability of the various portfolios. We investigate how many country portfolios switch from profitable to loss-making under …

conditional profitability distributions. Real GDP growth and the NPL ratio are shown to be the most reliable determinants of bank …This paper explores the determinants of profitability across large euro area banks using a novel approach based on … profitability. However, the estimated conditional distributions reveal that, while higher growth would raise profits on average, a …