This paper studies profit persistence in the banking sector in 12 African and Middle Eastern countries between 2003 and … 2019. We use a two-step system GMM to evaluate the speed of profit convergence toward the competitive norm and analyze … determinants of banks' profitability in these countries. We observe a high level of profit persistence and a slow speed of …

This study presents a re-examination of how net income growth and net profit margin of selected commercial banks quoted … growth and net profit margin of commercial banks, while the granger causality technique was followed in evaluating the effect … of corporate governance variables on net income growth and net profit margin. After performing the analysis, we found …

This paper examines the probable impact of volatility in stock markets of India and US on frontier markets of Africa …