Profitability and bank risk-taking in CEMAC

Jean Francky Landry Ngono and Danielle Sonia KAMGUIA Pone

Journal of Academic Finance, 2021, vol. 12, issue 1, 2 - 11

Abstract: Results: It appears that economic profitability, as well as liquidity and gross domestic product, significantly reduces the bank risk-taking in the CEMAC while inflation and high equity encourage it.Originality/Relevance: To expand the empirical literature on the effects of profitability on the taking of banks in the CEMAC. Studies of this kind within the sub-region being quite rareTheoretical/methodological contributions: Mobilize different theoretical concepts in order to provide a corpus of the effects of profitability on banks' risk-taking.Social/management contributions: This study provides private and public decision-makers with a toolbox to deal with banks’risk-taking, the consequences of which can be harmful for society as a whole.

Keywords: Economic profitability; financial profitability; bank risk-taking; Prise de risque des banques; rentabilité économique; rentabilité financière (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G3 M1 N8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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