This paper compares the performance of regional banks and national banks in Korea for the period of 19922004 by examining how the profitability of these two groups differs, identifying major determinants of profitability for each group, and explaining their similarities and differences. Two competing hypotheses, the market power hypothesis and the efficient structure hypothesis, are tested in a...

This research intends to examine the factors that influence profitability of banking industry since, as a sector influences economic circumstances, has witnessed fluctuations in over previous decade. form study employs quantitative secondary data sources. The population this consisted all state-owned banks from 2010 2021. Multiple linear regression test and also hypothesis testing are employed ...

The capital structure and regulation of financial intermediary firms are important topics for regulators and academic researchers. In general, theory predicts that firms choose their capital structures by balancing the benefits of debt against its costs. The purpose of this paper is to analyze capital structure as a function of bank's specific variable factors. It examines the relationship ...

Using bank level data this paper examines how bank’s specific characteristics and the overall banking environment affect the profitability of commercial domestic and foreign banks operating in the 15 EU countries over the period 1995–2001. The results indicate that profitability of both domestic and foreign banks is affected not only by bank’s specific characteristics but also by financial mark...

This study investigates whether the performance of companies is affected when they are included in Sustainability Index. The deals with operating Brazil and Turkiye, this respect, panel data analysis technique applied. ROA (Return On Assets) used for dependent variable, while independent variables debt/ equity ratio, company size, operational ratio results reveal that taking part Index has a st...

The study is about investigation of determinants dividend payout ratio commercial banks in Ethiopia over the period 2010-2018. Nine years Panel data was obtained from audited financial statements 8 selected Ethiopia. used six independent variables such as leverage, profitability, age firm, corporate tax rate, operating cash and extent shares distributed one dependent variable which ratio. Both ...

We make the case that ERP-related profitability improvements first manifest themselves in gross margin. Using regression discontinuity analysis, we compared “SAP Successes” with their matched competitors before and after their SAP implementation periods and found that the gross margin of SAP successes improved significantly but not their operating margin. These results proved robust across two ...

This study analyzes the influence of operating capital on a firm’s profitability in manufacturing sector China. The investigates that develops non-linear relationship with firm by using ordinary least square (OLS), fixed effect (FE), and generalized method moments (GMM) regression. research reveals positive financially less-constrained firms significantly negatively influences profitability. Co...

The aim of this study was to determine the main determinants profitability commercial banks in Zambia. is important because it establishes, based on empirical evidence, extent which generally identified factors impact bank Zambia.This first documented scientific effort key country.Using panel data compiled by banking regulator Zambia for 15 banks, we computed return average assets (ROAA) as a m...