investigates the determinants of banking profitability in the CEE banking sectors based on a Generalized Method of Methods (GMM …-governmental credit, non-performing loan rates, concentration rate and capitalization rate negatively impact on the banking profitability …

In this paper, we investigate how the increase in minimum wages affect firm profitability. We focus on the firm …-level panel data in Poland, where minimum wage growth remained stable and averaged around 4 percent between 2003 and 2007 but … that the minimum wage increase contributed positively to average wages and negatively to firm profitability. Intuitively …

countries imported from) and firm profitability. While both extensive margins are highly positively linked with firm …

the profitability of the exporting firms on the other hand. We find that profits tend to be larger in firms with less …

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … documents that the positive profitability differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically significant …. Instead, we use a newly developed continuous treatment approach and show that exporting improves the profitability almost over …