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The determinants of commercial bank profitability in Sub-Saharan Africa /

Bank profits are high in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) compared to other regions. This paper uses a sample of 389 banks in 41 SSA countries to study the determinants of bank profitability. We find that apart from credit risk, higher returns on assets are associated with larger bank size, activity diversi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Flamini, Valentina (Autor), McDonald, Calvin A. (Autor), Schumacher, Liliana (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: International Monetary Fund. African Department
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
Colección:IMF working paper ; WP/09/15.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Introduction; II. Literature Review; III. Data and Methodology; IV. Empirical Results; V. Concluding Remarks and Some Implications for Policymakers; Figures; Figure 1. Time Series of Sub-Saharan African Countries' Return on Assets; Figure 2. Average Return on Assets by Income Group (2006); Figure 3. Sub-Saharan Africa Return on Assets by Country (2006); Figure 4. Distribution of Sub-Saharan Africa Return on Assets (2006); Figure 5. Time Series of Sub-Saharan Africa's Return on Assets by Income Group; Figure 6. Time Series of Sub-Saharan Africa's Net Interest Margins
  • Figure 7. Average Net Interest Margins by Income Group (2006)Tables; Table 1. Account Decomposition of Banks by Income Group; Table 2. Account Decomposition of Sub-Saharan African Banks; Table 3. Variable Definition and Notation; Table 4. Descriptive Statistics; Table 5. Estimation Results; Table 6. Sargan Test for Alternative Model with All Variables Strictly Exogenous; Control Variables Table 7. Granger-Causality Test Between Return on Asset and Capital Without; Control Variables Table 8. Granger-Causality Test Between Return on Asset and Capital with