Managers are concerned about how the macroeconomic environment affects business profit. Focusing on banks, this study … investigates the effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on bank profitability in 22 advanced countries. The measures of bank … profitability are net interest margin, lending-deposit spread, non-interest income ratio, after-tax return on asset, before …

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 …

(FTA) on the profits of individual farmers. The parameters representing the share of profit within revenue and the …' profit. The application of the developed EDM to assess the impacts of the Korea-Chile FTA indicates that this FTA has little …