Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between bank-specific
characteristics and profitability in European banking sector to find the role of internal factors …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the internal determinants of bank
profitability and stability in Pakistan banking sector. Because of specific research objectives …

Using the GMM estimator technique described by Arellano and Bover (1995), this paper
analyzes the profitability of 372 commercial banks in Switzerland over the period from 1999 …

This study aims at finding out the determinants of Indian commercial banks profitability.
Profitability of Indian banks is measured by three important variables namely, Return on …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the determinants of bank profitability in
China. It examines the effects of inflation on bank profitability, while controlling for …

In this paper, we examine the influence of bank regulation, concentration, and financial and
institutional development on commercial bank margins and profitability across a broad …

Using data on commercial banks in seven Latin American countries from 1995 to 2012, we
find evidence of several major relationships involving bank profitability, including: 1) an …

This paper seeks to examine the determinants of the profitability of the US banks during the
period 1995-2007. The empirical analysis combines bank specific (endogenous) and …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the determinants of bank profitability in the early
transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), and in the late transition countries …

The present paper seeks to examine the determinants of Philippines banks profitability
during the period 1990–2005. The empirical findings suggest that all the bank-specific …