profitability in Singapore and Hong Kong before, during and after the global financial crisis. This paper uses the two-step system … Generalized Method of Moments to examine the impact of macroeconomic and firm-specific factors on corporate profitability. The … model includes firm-specific factors (firm size, leverage, liquidity, sales growth and previous year's profitability) and …

This paper empirically analyzes the profitability of the four Islamic banks operating in the UAE during the financial … period between 2004 and 2009 using three profitability indicators, return on total income, return on assets and return on … financial crisis began in the 3rd quarter of 2007, its impact on the profitability of Islamic banks was most profound in 2008 …

profitability toward maximizing shareholders' wealth. Little attention seems to have been paid so far to an inter-country comparison … of corporate profitability between firms in an advanced market and in an emerging market. Data from firms listed on the … determining the market-value and the book-value based profitability indices. As described, a majority of total explanatory …

implications for finance in Asia, Douglas Arner and Lotte Schou-Zibell draw lessons for Asian financial systems with regard to the …