We analyze how bank profitability impacts financial stability from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. We … first develop a theoretical model of the relationship between bank profitability and financial stability by exploring the … empirical determinants of bank risks and profitability, and how the level and the source of bank profitability affect risks for …

This paper reviews the empirical relationships between credit growth, economic recovery, and bank profitability in … Europe after the global financial crisis (GFC). We find that the post-GFC recoveries in Europe have been weaker than previous … underperformance. Bank lending has been subdued as well, but this appears to have only held back the recovery relatively moderately. A …

relationship between banks'' risk of failure, market structure, bank ownership, and banks'' screening and bankruptcy costs. These …,000 bank-year observations for 133 non-industrialized countries during the 1993-2004 period. Four main results obtain. First …, the positive and significant relationship between bank concentration and bank risk of failure found in Boyd, De Nicolò and …

a set of 21 Europe countries, we show that while the short-term response of participation rates to labor demand shocks … is typically larger in Europe than in the US, the immediate response of net migration in Europe has increased over time …

, Europe and Japan allowing for fiscal multipliers to vary across recessions and booms. We also estimate ex ante probabilities …

-stock model where supply shocks dominate. In contrast to the United States, inventories boost growth with a one-year lag in Europe …

.S. regions and across Europe using a multivariate vector autoregression technique. The paper finds inflexible real wages in all … force to employment shocks is much greater in the United States compared to Europe. The strong labor force response in the … United States prevents any persistence in relative regional unemployment rates whereas the lack of mobility in Europe results …

The paper investigates EU banks' profitability through the recent financial cycle using banklevel balance sheet and … stable over the financial cycle, including post-crisis, and there is no clear evidence that aspects of bank business model …, such as higher reliance on fees and commission income, were associated with better profitability post-crisis …

conditional profitability distributions. Real GDP growth and the NPL ratio are shown to be the most reliable determinants of bank …This paper explores the determinants of profitability across large euro area banks using a novel approach based on … profitability. However, the estimated conditional distributions reveal that, while higher growth would raise profits on average, a …