have weak influence on bank profitability while bank size, capital adequacy, liquidity ratio, cost-income ratio and loan …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 …

The paper examines the long-term profitability of the Italian banking system (1965-2011), which has three interesting …. Our analysis shows that the most important driver of profitability has been the decline of the margins since the late 1980 … profitability can only come from significant actions of rationalization, which apparently have not been delivered in the past wave …

, despite the large and extended literature on the subject, determinants of bank profitability in the case of the PICs remain … study to systematically examine the determinants of bank profitability in a Pacific island context. Results show that none … remain strong and profitable raising the question: what determines the strong profitability of banks in the PICs? Moreover …

This paper examines the history and the determinants of bank profits in Italy from 2005-15. We first identify a number …. The comparison suggests that the profitability gap of Italian banks is partly related to a business model characterized by … a more conservative positioning along the risk-return frontier. We then use the Bank of Italy's Quarterly Model of the …