Where Have All the Profits Gone? : European Bank Profitability Over the Financial Cycle /

The paper investigates EU banks' profitability through the recent financial cycle using banklevel balance sheet and income statement data. We find that banks that were more successful at protecting their profits had a less pronounced deterioration in loan quality and a larger improvement in cos...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Detragiache, Enrica
Other Authors: Tressel, Thierry, Turk-Ariss, Rima
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/099
Online Access:Full text available on IMF