The purpose of this work is to find the influence of a set of bank characteristics (market share, principal shareholders, profitability, size), and the gender of the company's board members, along with supervising abilities, on profitability, cost of debt and corporate leverage. The novelty of...

This paper aims to analyze the determinants of profitability and bank efficiency in the Iberian Peninsula. To achieve the proposed objective, a sample of 66 Portuguese and Spanish banks was analyzed. To test the hypotheses formulated according to the proposed literature review, the panel data...