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 …

This paper identifies and investigates conceptual and empirical links among Russia?s disappointing growth performance … GDP, which has stifled growth, contributed to the 1998 meltdown through its impact on public debt and made at best a … enterprise restructuring and growth (by hardening budget constraints) and medium-term macroeconomic stability (by reducing the …