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Financial Structure and Bank Profitability

Countries differ in the extent to which their financial systems are bank-based or market-based. The financial systems of Germany and Japan, for example, are considered bank-based because banks play a leading role in mobilizing savings, allocating capital, overseeing investment decisions of corporate...

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Main Authors: Demirgüç-Kunt, Aslı, Huizinga, Harry
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:
accounting
assets
assets of deposit money
assets of deposit money banks
balance sheet
balance sheets
bank assets
bank lending
bank performance
bank profits
banking sector
banking sector development
banking system
bankruptcy
banks
book value
borrowing
capital adequacy
capitalization
central bank
central bank assets
commercial bank
contract enforcement
corporate finance
corporate managers
country data
credit risk
creditor rights
deposit interest
deposit rates
deposits
developed countries
earning assets
earning power
economic development
economic growth
economists
empirical evidence
financial dependence
financial development
financial intermediaries
financial regulation
financial sector
financial structure
financial structures
financial system
financial systems
foreign banks
GDP
GDP per capita
high interest rates
income
income groups
income statements
inflation
interest expense
interest income
interest margin
interest rate
interest rates
international banking
lending rates
loan defaults
low interest
market capitalization
monetary economics
net interest margin
operating costs
overhead costs
political economy
private sector
profitability
regression analysis
risk management
savings
stock market
stock markets
taxation
wages
bank ratings
banking regulation
market-based instruments
savings behavior
capital assets
investments
industrialized societies
developing countries
performance indicators
trading arrangements
transactions
competition policy
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21368

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