...Michael O’Connell Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of bank-specific, industry-specific and macroeconomic determinants of bank profitability amongst domestic UK commercial banks. Design/methodology/approach This study used an empirically driven single equation...

...Sin-Yu Ho; Bernard Njindan Iyke Purpose This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of the literature on the determinants of stock market development. Design/methodology/approach The paper divides the existing studies into the theoretical and empirical literature. Then, it analyses...

...Wassim Dbouk; Lawrence Kryzanowski Purpose Most of the credit spread literature deals with the determinants of credit spread changes for individual bonds. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the explanatory power of credit spread changes and their determinants for portfolios. Design...