The authors analyze commercial banks' profitability (return on equity, ROE) at different levels of creditor rights and an aggregate score of information sharing in terms of credit bureaus. After controlling for bank size and some macroeconomic variables, the results indicate that profitability...

Using a contextual approach on a sample of commercial banks from the OECD countries, this study identifies some drivers of abnormal ROE (residual income scaled by beginning-of-period book value of equity). We select the key theoretical variables from the banking and the accounting literature and...