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Determinants Of The Profitability Of The U.S. Banking Industry During The Financial Crisis, Shiang Liu Aug 2013

Determinants Of The Profitability Of The U.S. Banking Industry During The Financial Crisis, Shiang Liu

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This research focuses on the determinants of the profitability of the US banking industry during the financial crisis. The analysis focuses on both internal and external variables regarding the profitability of banking sector, including bank-specific variables, industry-specific variables and macro economy variables. Data over the period 2007-2012 for 8677 US banks is derived from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Nasdaq Stock Market and Federal Reserve Bank. Fixed effect panel model are used to analyze the estimator and the significance of the determinants of the profitability. In this study, I test the nonlinear relationship between profitability and capital adequacy ratio and …


Does A Banking Crisis Reduce Foreign Direct Investment?, Eunjeong Kim May 2013

Does A Banking Crisis Reduce Foreign Direct Investment?, Eunjeong Kim

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With as much importance as Foreign Direct Investment, an enormous amount of study on the factors which might hamper Foreign Direct Investment has been done with a lot of research. Also, the impact of a crisis on FDI has been especially appealing due to the recent economic depression. However, the literature about the linkage between one of the crises, a banking crisis and FDI is sparse even though a banking crisis is highly correlated with the overall economy's damage. With data collected for 60 countries for the years 1990-2010, this paper examines the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment and a …