The paper analyses bank profitability in a sample of UK commercial banks during the period 2007–2018. The models measuring profitability include as dependent variables the Return on Average Assets (ROAA), Return on Average Equity (ROAE) and Net Interest Margin (NIM) while explanatory variables...

Variable geometry ought to imply "variably geometry Europe" as variable geometry or differentiated integration in the European Union has reached its limits. Drawing on the lessons of the Eurozone crisis and of Brexit, this chapter argues that (treaty-based) variable geometry or differentiated...