Does low banking profitability contribute to financial instability in the Euro Zone?

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Paulo Miguel Bernardino
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/27435
• topic: Financial stability; Banking supervision; Banking profitability determinants; Crise financeira -- Financial crisis; Crise económica -- Economic crisis; Estabilidade financeira; Supervisão bancária; Determinantes da rendibilidade bancária

The present research explores the hypothesis that lower levels of banking profitability constitutes a risk factor for financial stability by adopting a model which intends to find the main banking profitability determinants over 4 bank profitability quartiles of a sample of 735 banks. The sampled banks have total assets over $1 Billion and are located in 12 Euro Area countries. The adopted time window ranges from 2006 to 2015. This panel data model’s purpose is to find the relevance of the ‘GDP growth’ variable on explaining profitability of the lower profitable banks in the in-crisis period and compare this variable’s significance with the case of the higher profitable banks by looking for differences, mainly, whether it is a more relevant factor for lower profit banks than higher ones. The findings suggest that there is no relationship between lower profitability levels and higher impacts of GDP growth on banks profitability during the crisis. The baseline results are subject to robustness checks and are globally stable. Our analysis suggests that other risk factors on banks’ management should be adequately addressed by policymakers.