This paper identifies the determinants of bank profits and net interest margins using a balanced panel of 167 banks for … America. Our fixed effects regression model strongly indicates that gross domestic product, bank concentration and inflation … have weak influence on bank profitability while bank size, capital adequacy, liquidity ratio, cost-income ratio and loan …

This paper examines the impact of the Asian crisis on bank stocks across four Western countries and six Asian countries …. In the second half of 1997, Western banks experienced positive returns. In contrast East Asian bank indices incurred … market impact only in Indonesia and the Philippines. Except for the Korean program, IMF programs had little effect on bank …