Bank profitability and the business cycle

Ugo Albertazzi and Leonardo Gambacorta

Journal of Financial Stability, 2009, vol. 5, issue 4, 393-409

Abstract: An important element of the macro-prudential analysis is the study of the link between business cycle fluctuations and banking sector profitability and how this link is affected by institutional and structural characteristics. This work estimates a set of equations for net interest income, non-interest income, operating costs, provisions, and profit before taxes, for banks in the main industrialized countries and evaluates the effects on banking profitability of shocks to both macroeconomic and financial factors. Distinguishing mainly the euro area from Anglo-Saxon countries, the analysis also identifies differences in the resilience of the respective banking systems and relates them to the characteristics of their financial structure.

Keywords: Bank; profitability; Economic; cycle; Macro-prudential; analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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