Managers are concerned about how the macroeconomic environment affects business profit. Focusing on banks, this study … investigates the effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on bank profitability in 22 advanced countries. The measures of bank … profitability are net interest margin, lending-deposit spread, non-interest income ratio, after-tax return on asset, before …

profitability in Singapore and Hong Kong before, during and after the global financial crisis. This paper uses the two-step system … Generalized Method of Moments to examine the impact of macroeconomic and firm-specific factors on corporate profitability. The … model includes firm-specific factors (firm size, leverage, liquidity, sales growth and previous year's profitability) and …