) and the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR), are likely to impact banks’ profitability (i.e., ROA), capital levels and default … to explain the variation in a measure of a bank’s default risk (approximated by Z-score) and how these effects make their … probabilities of default. Conversely, the impact on banks’ profitability is less clear-cut; what seems to matter is banks’ funding …

We evaluated the effects of the bank levy (BL) on the profitability of commercial banks and the balance sheet … or shift assets among different locations or entities to decrease the bank levy. The research findings also showed that …