This study develops a framework for forecasting selected balance sheet items of the four largest Maltese core banks, with a particular emphasis on bank profitability. Methodologically, it employs two multivariate time series models, namely a Factor-Augmented VAR (FAVAR) and a Bayesian VAR...

The study aims to identify the effect of the CEO and audit committee characteristics on financial performance. To achieve the study's goal, panel data was adopted for 43 private Iraqi banks from 2018 to 2022 with 215 observations. The data was analyzed using Stata. Three models were used to...