-term financial management of small and medium-sized enterprises in Europe. Return on assets is used as a proxy for profitability and … organisation's liquidity and profitability. This study aims to examine the relationship between the operating performance and short … profitability and each of its determinants, such as average collection period, average payment period, average inventory period …

Quantitative easing (QE) affects banks’ profitability in three main ways. First, as QE drives up bond prices, banks … should reduce problems with non-performing loans. The effects of QE on bank profitability are therefore not one directional … been stable. Moreover, bank profitability has increased mostly as a result of efforts to clean balance sheets of impaired …

In this paper we argue that the own findings of the SSM THEMATIC REVIEW ON PROFITABILITY AND BUSINESS MODEL and the … academic literature on bank profitability do not provide support for the business model approach of supervisory guidance. We …

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

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