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 … profitability is positively and significantly influenced by credit growth, but this relationship has weakened after the GFC …

The paper investigates EU banks' profitability through the recent financial cycle using banklevel balance sheet and …, such as higher reliance on fees and commission income, were associated with better profitability post-crisis …

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

million companies in Europe. We document a positive association between corporate return on assets and the share of women in …

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) play an important role in Emerging Europe's economies, notably in the energy and …, as well as Sweden as a benchmark. Profitability and efficiency of resource allocation of SOEs lag those of private firms …

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 …

to explain CDS spreads of sovereigns in peripheral Europe - the model specification should be cognizant of the under …