Driven by higher profit incentives, banks' marketing strategies have tended increasingly to exclude sections of the retail market on socio-economic lines. Ironically, these strategies are now seen to have profitability and social responsibility implications. Little previous attempt has been made...

This article investigates the determinants of Net Interest Margins (NIM) of banks in Fiji, a Small Island Developing State (SIDS) in the South Pacific, over the period 2000-2010. Based mainly on the Ho and Saunders' (1981) dealership model and extensions thereto, this study uses a number of...

This is the first study to simultaneously estimate the influence of market power and efficiency on profitability of banks in a Pacific Island context. Two market power hypotheses — the Structure-Conduct-Performance (SCP) and the Relative-Market-Power (RMP) hypotheses together with two measures...

Banks in the small island developing states of the Pacific have not only survived the Global Financial Crisis but remain strong and profitable raising the question: what determines the strong profitability of banks in the PICs? Moreover, despite the large and extended literature on the subject,...

The economic development of country depends on the effective banking system. In recent years, there have been considerable pressures on the profitability of banks. The study investigates the long run equilibrium relationship between the return on assets (ROA) and nine variables over the period...