activities and (2) correlation between these factors and relative bank profitability. Thus, the hypothesis that international … activities. This partial support suggests (on the basis of relative profitability) that banks should carefully assess their …

; however, the impact of bank profitability on economic growth is still unclear. We investigate the link between bank … of bank profitability on economic growth is more prominent in small banking sectors. Perhaps surprisingly, we found that … the bank size has a negative impact on GDP growth, with the influence of bank profitability on economic growth reducing as …