We examine the financial performance, risk, changing revenue and asset mix, prospects for future shareholder value creation and executive compensation of the 15 largest commercial banks in the US from 2001-2010. Aggregate revenue for large commercial banks in the US reached all-time highs in...

This paper reviews the financial performance, risk, changing revenue and asset mix and prospects for future shareholder value creation of the 20 largest commercial banks in the US from 2003-2012. Fifteen of the 20 banks in the sample reported record revenues in 2012, with 12 of these banks also...

We examine the relationship between leverage and residual income for a sample of international banks using an unbalanced panel over the period 2005-2011. Our GMM-based econometric model considers both bank-level and country-level variables to control for several other factors aside from equity...

This paper investigates the impact of banks' characteristics, financial structure and macroeconomic indicators on banks' net interest margins and profitability in the Tunisian banking industry for the 1980-2000 period. Individual bank characteristics explain a substantial part of the...

This study specifically examines the effects of domestic-political risk and global economic policy uncertainty factors on the profitability of Ukrainian banks during the 2005-2015 period. The empirical results underscore that the domestic-political stability and global economic policy...

In this paper, we examine whether financial development is an important determinant of bank profitability. Using the robust ordinary least square and the generalized method of moments regression methodology, we find a significant negative relationship between the financial system deposits to GDP...

Zielsetzung der vorliegenden Untersuchung ist die Entwicklung und Umsetzung einer Methodik zum systematischen Vergleich der Gesamtperformance (Totalrendite) von Lebensversicherungsprodukten (hier primär: Kapitallebensversicherung) auf der einen Seite und Investmentprodukten (Aktien-, Renten-...

Die Bezahlung von Managern -aber auch von anderen Mitarbeitern- mittels Optionen auf die Aktien des eigenen Unternehmens (employee stock options, ESO's) ist in den USA weit verbreitet. Seit kurzem steigt auch in Deutschland das Interesse an dieser Vergütungskonstruktion. Als wesentlicher...

Die Bezahlung von Managern -aber auch von anderen Mitarbeitern- mittels Optionen auf die Aktiendes eigenen Unternehmens (employee stock options, ESO's) ist in den USA weit verbreitet.1 Seitkurzem steigt auch in Deutschland das Interesse an dieser Vergütungskonstruktion.2 Als wesentlicherVorteil...

The transition to market in Slovenia created labor displacements that were on par or greater than thatexperienced in North America in the 1980s. A simple theoretical model suggests that factors which raisethe probability of layoff should also increase the probability of a quit, predictions that...