shareholder's need (i.e profitability) and regulatory requirements (liquidity and capital) is a delicate balance that banks strive …. Liquidity and regulatory capital requirements have gained momentum after the 2008 global financial crisis. Meeting the … Union, the results show how banks in Europe strive to achieve profitability requirements at the same time meeting the …

generation of rents (as a distinctly different mechanism from profit maximising business activity), we use a broader notion of … rent than it was customary in the past 50 years. We return to the Ricardian tradition and define the institution of rent as … alia - the income of those whose jobs are protected by unions or professional associations, with the same holding for top …

Profit is the general index summing up the outcomes of company industrial and economic activity and evaluating its … efficiency. To reveal the point of profit one should consider its formation and evolution as well as contemporary scientists …' insight into the concept. The article covers the formation of profit in the context of economic historical development …

capitalists want a recovery; how else can they prosper? According to the textbooks, both mainstream and heterodox, capital … and the unemployed – serves not to undermine but to boost the overall income share of capitalists. And as employment … growth decelerates, the income share of the Top 1% – which includes the capitalists as well as their protective power belt …

market-centred economic reforms; the other, attributing the cause to the ‘unproductive’ nature of foreign financial capital … transformation of capital and the state—to the historical changes in the nature of these institutions through the commodification of … capital and the state and the evolution of the capitalist ruling class in order to grasp the nature of the post-1997 social …