This Paper examines the effect of price competition on innovation, market structure and profitability in R … counts and profitability over 1952-77. The econometric results suggest that the introduction of restrictive practices …&D-intensive manufacturing industries, while it caused a significant rise in concentration in these industries. In the short run profitability …

The use of traditional industry-level profitability indicators for assessing the state of competition is problematic … profitability in opposite directions. In this analysis both problems are avoided by using firm-level Financial Statement Statistics … sources of industry-level profitability changes have been examined over a long-run period. The findings provide support to the …

Measuring bank performance solely on the basis of profitability conveys significant information about past performance … criteria: (i) profitability; (ii) risk; (iii) market power, and (iv) efficiency. We use this scorecard to compare the …

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) profitability. This study examines the determinant, persistence and convergence of MFIs … profitability in thirty two Africa economies, between 1997 and 2008, using a dynamic panel model. Estimation results shows evidence … of persistence of excess profit from one year to the next. It is plausible that if there is a shock to profitability …

that macroeconomic factors play a significant role in determining bank profitability. This paper investigates the … determinants of bank profitability in the light of bank specific variables, industry related factors and macroeconomic influences … profitability is largely determined by credit risk and other factors that relate to the internal organization of banking firms …

This paper analyses structural and cyclical determinants of banking profitability in 16 Western European countries. We …. The industry concentration of national banking systems, though, does not significantly affect aggregate profitability …

We examine the determinants of profitability for a large sample of US banks over the period 1984-2010. Specifically, we … the recent financial crisis. Our findings suggest that the competitive process reduces positions of abnormal profitability … level and persistence of bank profitability. The financial crisis of 2007-2010 appears to have resulted in an increase in …

, industry-specific characteristics, and macroeconomics variables) on rural banks performance (profitability and efficiency) in … the distance of banks‟ to the nearest bank negatively affects profitability, but positively affects bank efficiency …. However, the area of market boundary has positive impact to bank profitability and efficiency. The Lerner index shows that …