In the present paper an effort will be made to examine if geographical concentration of trade of goods has a positive impact on Bank profitability. The countries examined are: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and USA. The estimation...

In this paper it will be shown that large banks have a lower deposit rate, offer more competitive prices and finally realize higher profitability than the small ones. Data cover Western European Banks as well as the United States during the period 1997-2008. Data source is O.E.C.D. Panel data...

In the present paper an empirical analysis will point out that government debt as a percentage of GDP has a negative impact (among others) on banking profitability. This impact will be even worse when this debt as a percentage of GDP exceeds a certain critical level. The sample covers during the...

In the present paper it will be shown econometrically with panel data that bank shareholders regarding profitability are “neutral to risk”, while bank managers are “risk averters”. Especially in the northern countries bank managers are more “risk averters” than in the whole sample....

The contribution of the present paper is twofold. First, it introduces a practical estimation of banking entrepreneurial reward (remuneration) and uses it as a variable in order to estimate its effect on bank profitability (in the capitalistic countries as well as in the post communist ones)....

A lot of studies have examined only from the microeconomic point of view the usefulness of logistics to firm profitability either theoretically or empirically. In the present paper an effort will be made to examine the usefulness of logistics taking also into account the macroeconomic point of...

In the present paper author attempts to point out that in EU selling through internet increases firm profitability, especially in the southern regions. Our sample covers many EU member states, and the software package of Eviews is used for the panel data analysis. Data are taken from Eurostat