We investigate the monetary linkage between aggregate accounting profitability changes and inflation. Recent previous evidence reveals a strong relation between aggregate earnings changes and the three components of expected stock market returns (i.e., real riskless rate, expected inflation, and...

Using a sample of 1,619 commercial banks from 82 countries we investigate the impact of financial consumer protection policies on bank profit efficiency estimated with a production frontier function. Our results show that more regulatory requirements decrease bank profit efficiency. We confirm...

The aim of this study is to examine the profitability behaviour of bank-specific, industryrelated and macroeconomic determinants, using an unbalanced panel dataset of South Eastern European (SEE) credit institutions over the period 1998-2002. The estimation results indicate that, with the...