The aim of this study is to examine the effect of bank-specific, industry-specific and macroeconomic determinants of bank profitability, using an empirical framework that incorporates the traditional Structure-Conduct-Performance (SCP) hypothesis. To account for profit persistence, we apply a...

We test whether a country's level of financial development or institutional quality (or both) has a first‐order effect on corporate debt maturity decisions on a sample of 359 non-financial firms from five South American countries over a 12‐year period. We find that there is a substantial...

In this paper we revisited the recent contribution study which examines the determinants of bilateral trade between Iran and Europe Union, ECO, GCC and ASEAN countries in the period 1995-2009, using a panel data approach. The findings indicate that Iran’ trade flows follow the Linder...