literature. This paper seeks to study the determinants of bank asset quality and profitability using panel data techniques and … allows them to finish with lower levels of NPAs. Further, this study investigates the effect of determinants on profitability …, and establishes that while capital adequacy and investment activity significantly affect the profitability of commercial …

profitability of banks’ portfolios affect their ability to cover for any liquidity shortage and hence influence the premium they … require to carry maturity risk. During a boom, profitability is increasing and thus spreads are low, while during a recession … profitability is decreasing and spreads are high, in accordance with the cyclical properties of term spreads in the data. Second, we …

We investigate the monetary linkage between aggregate accounting profitability changes and inflation. Recent previous … (i.e., real riskless rate, expected inflation, and expected equity risk premium) further supporting the theory of … the impact of aggregate profitability changes on monetary-policy-stance measures in order to explain the relation between …