In this study, U.S. manufacturing firms' profitability measures including profit margins and returns on equity are … profitability ratios and the valuation multiples of U.S. manufacturing firms are insulated from the effects of monetary policy, and … contractionary policy is significantly correlated with these firms' profitability and price multiples, it has different impacts on …

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 …