The paper analyses bank profitability in a sample of UK commercial banks during the period 2007–2018. The models … that the size of the banks has a negative role in the profitability due to the existence of economies of scale for the … smaller banks and diseconomies for the larger. Additionally, as far as the external macroeconomic factors are concerned, the …

In more than 130 years, the cooperative banks and rural banks, have become a best practice, widespread in all the … Italian regions so as to become, through Federcasse, a federal system included among the 130 European banks, referents ECB. A … model that today has about 400 local banks and that, discounting the guiding principles, interprets the function as a …

savings accounts treating the banks as two separate entities despite a factually combined ownership. Our analysis builds on …