This paper analyses the effect of bank profitability on economic growth. While policymakers have shown major concerns … for low levels of bank profitability, there are no empirical studies on the growth effects of bank profitability. To fill … this gap, we investigate the impact of bank profitability on economic growth using a sample of 133 countries during the …

; however, the impact of bank profitability on economic growth is still unclear. We investigate the link between bank … profitability and economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region over the period 2004-2014. Using the system GMM estimator, our findings … of bank profitability on economic growth is more prominent in small banking sectors. Perhaps surprisingly, we found that …