Di Vito, Luca; Fuentes, Natalia; Leite, Joao Matos - 2023
This investigation starts with the observation that, over the last decade, profitability rates reported by euro area … profitability gap of around 5 percentage points.1 However, while comparisons are frequently made between EA and US banks in academic …-for-like comparison. This paper seeks to identify and analyse the factors behind the profitability gap in a structured manner. We …