外文文献翻译【欧盟国内外银行盈利能力影响因素分析】复习课程
《股权结构与盈利能力关系研究国内外文献综述3500字》
股权结构与盈利能力关系研究国内外文献综述目录股权结构与盈利能力关系研究国内外文献综述 (1)(一)国外文献综述 (1)1.资本结构与盈利能力的关系。
(1)2.股权结构和盈利能力的关系 (1)(二)国内文献综述 (2)(三)文献述评 (3)参考文献 (4)(一)国外文献综述1.资本结构与盈利能力的关系。
Titman(2009)根据400多家制造业上市公司的相关数据,分析企业在不同负债阶段下的盈利能力,得出如果公司负债过高,将影响公司的盈利能力[1]。
S. Ouchene等(2013)主要分析了美国银行优化资本结构的途径是提高二级资本,并提高了盈利能力2]。
Lepetit L等(2014)在研究影响银行盈利能力的因素时,深入分析了股东控制和美国次贷危机的影响。
研究发现,当股东控制相对集中时,银行的利润最大。
风险也较高,在一定程度上会影响公司的盈利能力[3]。
Daskalakis N等(2017)重点研究了外部环境、内部流动性和中小企业长期债务负债率的变化。
短期负债随外部环境的变化变化更为明显,而本案例中短期负债变化不大[4]。
Vecchiato M等(2018)以美国金融业为研究对象。
基于美国金融业的相关金融数据,将研究对象限定在金融业。
了解行业不同变化下的资本结构将影响其盈利能力,最终发现在美国金融行业资产收益率越低,公司经营业绩越好的研究结论[5]。
2.股权结构和盈利能力的关系Welch(2003)为了研究股权结构与盈利能力的关系,选取澳大利亚上市公司作为研究样本,同时选取了股权结构作为内生变量,实证结果表明,公司股权结构与盈利能力相关,且内部人持股与盈利能力有着非线性相关的关系[6]。
Andersson等(2004)选取了瑞典87家上市公司,以1999-2003年的数据为样本,以资产收益率和产权净利率为盈利能力指标,对公司的股权结构与盈利能力之间的关系进行实证研究。
研究结果表明,当内部股东表决权为5%、10%和20%时,表决权对盈利能力的影响也各不相同[7]。
营运资金管理对不同经济周期公司盈利能力的影响外文文献翻译
文献出处:Enqvist, Julius, Michael Graham, and Jussi Nikkinen. "The impact of working capital management on firm profitability in different business cycles: evidence from Finland." Research in International Business and Finance 32 (2014): 36-49.原文The impact of working capital management on firm profitability in different business cycles: Evidence from Finland1. IntroductionThis paper investigates the effect of the business cycle on the link between working capital, the difference between current assets and current liabilities, and corporate performance. Efficient working capital management is recognized as an important aspect of financial management practices in all organizational forms. In acknowledgement of this importance, the CFO Magazine publishes an annual study of corporate working capital management performance in many countries. The extensive literature indicates that it impacts directly on corporate liquidity ( Kim et al., 1998 and Opler et al., 1999), profitability (e.g., Shin and Soenen, 1998, Deloof, 2003, Lazaridis and Tryfonidis, 2006 and Ukaegbu, 2014), and solvency (e.g.,Berryman, 1983 and Peel and Wilson, 1994).It is reasonable to assume that economy-wide fluctuations exogenous to the operations of the firm play an important role in the demand for firms’ products and any financing decision. Korajczyk and Levy (2003), for instance, suggest that firms time debt issuance based on economic conditions. Also, given that retained earnings are a significant component of working capital, business cycles can be said to affect all enterprises financing source through its effect on economic growth and sales. For example, when company sales weaken it engenders earning declines, thereby, affecting an important source of working capital. The recent global economic downturn with crimping consumer demand is an excellent example of this. The crisis,characterized by plummeting sales, put a squeeze on corporate revenues and profit margins, and subsequently, working capital requirements. This has brought renewed focus on working capital management at companies all over the world.The literature on working capital, however, only includes a handful of studies examining the impact of the business cycle on working capital. An early study by Merville and Tavis (1973) examined the relationship between firm working capital policies and business cycle. More recent studies have investigated the degree to which firms’ reliance on bank borrowing to finance working capital is cyclical (Einarsson and Marquis, 2001), the significance of firms’ external dependence for financing needs on the link between industry growth and business the cycle in the short term (Braun and Larrain, 2005), and the influence of business indicators on the determinants of working capital management (Chiou et al., 2006). These studies have independently linked working capital to corporate profitability and the business cycle. No study, to the best of our knowledge, has examined the simultaneous working capital–profitability and business cycle effects. There is therefore a substantial gap in the literature which this paper seeks to fill. Firms may have an optimal level of working capital that maximizes their value. However, optimal levels may change to reflect business conditions. Consequently, we contribute to the literature by re-examining the relationship between working capital management and corporate profitability by investigating the role business cycle plays in this relationship.We investigate this important relationship using a sample of firms listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange and an extended study period of 18 years, between 1990 and 2008. Finnish firms tend to react strongly to changes in the business cycle, a characteristic that can be observed from the volatility of the Nasdaq OMX Helsinki stock index. The index usually declines quickly in poor economic states, but also makes fast recoveries. Finland, therefore, presents an excellent representative example of how the working capital–profitability relationship may change in different economic states. The choice of Finland is also significant as it also offers a representative Nordic perspective of this important working capital–profitability relationship. Hitherto no academic study has examined the workingcapital–profitability relationship in the Nordic region, to the best of our knowledge. Surveys on working capital management in the Nordic region carried out by Danske Bank and Ernst & Young in 2009 show, however, that many companies rated their working capital management performance as average, with a growing focus on optimizing working capital in the future. The surveys are, however, silent on how this average performance affected profitability. This gives further impetus for our study.Our results point to a number of interesting findings. First, we find that firms can enhance their profitability by increasing working capital efficiency. This is a significant result because many Nordic firms find it hard to turn good policy intentions on working capital management into reality (Ernst and Young, 2009). Economically, firms may gain by paying increasing attention to efficient working capital practices. Our empirical finding, therefore, should motivate firms to implement new work processes as a matter of necessity. We also found that working capital management is relatively more important in low economic states than in the economic boom state, implying working capital management should be included in firms’ financial planning. This finding corroborates evidence from the survey results in the Nordic region. Specifically, the survey results by Ernst and Young (2009) indicate that the largest potential for improvement in working capital could be found within the optimization of internal processes. This suggests that this area is not prioritized in times of business growth which is typical of the general economic expansion periods and is exposed in economic downturns.The remainder of this paper is organized as follows: Section 2 presents a brief review of the literature presents the hypotheses for empirical testing. Sections 3 and 4 discuss data and models to be estimated. The empirical results are presented in Section 5 and Section 6 concludes.2. Related literature and hypotheses2.1. Literature reviewMany firms have invested significant amounts in working capital and a number of studies have examined the determinants of this investment. For example Kim et al. (1998) and Opler et al. (1999), Chiou et al. (2006) and D’Mello et al. (2008) find thatthe availability of external financing is a determinant of liquidity. Thus restricted access to capital markets requires firms to hold larger cash reserves. Other studies show that firms with weaker corporate governance structures hold smaller cash reserves (Harford et al., 2008). Furthermore firms with excess cash holding as well as weak shareholder rights undertake more acquisitions. However there is a higher likelihood of value-decreasing acquisitions (Harford, 1999). Kieschnick and Laplante (2012) provide evidence linking working capital management to shareholder wealth. They find that the incremental dollar invested in net operating capital is less valuable than the incremental dollar held in cash for the average firm. The findings reported in the paper further suggest that the valuation of the incremental dollar invested in net operating working is significantly influenced by a firm's future sales expectations, its debt load, its financial constraints, and its bankruptcy risk. Further the value of the incremental dollar extended in credit to one's customers has a greater effect on shareholder wealth than the incremental dollar invested in inventories for the average firm. Taken together the results indicate the significance of working capital management to the firm's residual claimants, and how financing impacts these effects.A thin thread of the literature links business cycles to working capital. In a theoretical model, Merville and Tavis (1973) posit that investment and financing decisions relating to working capital should be made in chorus as components of each impact on the optimal policies of the others. The optimal working capital policy of the firm is, therefore, made within a systems context, components of which are related spatially over time in a chance-constrained format. Uncertainty in the wider business environment directly affects the system. For example, short run demand fluctuations disrupt anticipated incoming cash flows, and the collection of receivables faces increased uncertainty. The model provides a structure enabling corporate managers to solve complex inventory and credit policies for short term financial planning.In an empirical study, Einarsson and Marquis (2001) find that the degree to which companies rely on bank financing to cover their working capital requirements in the U.S. is countercyclical; it increases as the state of the economy weakens. Furthermore, Braun and Larrain (2005) find that high working capital requirementsar e a key determinant of a business’ dependence on external financing. They show that firms that are highly dependent on external financing are more affected by recessions, and should take more precautions in preparing for declines in the economic environment, including ensuring a secure level of working capital reserves during times of crisis. Additionally, Chiou et al. (2006) recognize the importance of the state of the economy and includes business indicators in their study of working capital determinants. They find a positive relationship between business indicator and working capital requirements.The relationship between profitability and working capital management in various markets has also attracted intense interest. In a comprehensive study, Shin and Soenen (1998) document a strong inverse relationship between working capital efficiency and profitability across U.S. industries. This inverse relationship is supported by Deloof (2003), Lazaridis and Tryfonidis (2006), and Garcia-Teruel and Martinez-Solano (2007)for Belgian non-financial firms, Greek listed firms, and Spanish small and medium size enterprises (SME), respectively. There are, however, significant divergences in the results relating to the effect of the various components of working capital on profitability. For example, whereas Deloof (2003) find a negative and statistically significant relationship between account payable and profitability, Garcia-Teruel and Martinez-Solano (2007) find no such measurable influences in a sample of Spanish SMEs.2.2. Hypotheses developmentThe cash conversion cycle (CCC), a useful and comprehensive measure of working capital management, has been widely used in the literature (see for example Deloof, 2003 and Gill et al., 2010). The CCC, measured in days, is the length of time between a company's expenditure for the procurement of raw materials and the collection of sales of finished goods. We adopt this as our measure of working capital management in this study. Previous studies have established a link between profitability and the CCC in different countries and market segments.Efficient working capital management practices aims to shorten the CCC to optimize to levels that best suites the requirements of the specific company (Hager,1976). A short CCC indicates quick collection of receivables and delays in payments to suppliers. This is associated with profitability given that it improves corporate efficiency in its use of working capital. Deloof (2003), however, posits that low inventory levels, tight trade credit policies and utilizing obtained trade credit as a means of financing can increase risks of inventory stock-outs, decrease sales stimulants and increase accounts payable costs by forgoing given cash discounts. Managers must, therefore, always consider the tradeoff between liquidity and profitability when managing working capital. A faster rise in the cost of higher investment in working capital relative to the benefits of holding more inventories and/or granting trade credit to customers may lead to decrease in corporate profitability. Deloof (2003), Wang (2002), Lazaridis and Tryfonidis (2006), and Gill et al. (2010) all propose a negative relationship between the cash conversion cycle and corporate profitability. Following this, we propose a general hypothesis stating the expected negative relationship between the cash conversion cycle and corporate profitability:6. ConclusionsWorking capital, the difference between current assets and current liabilities, is used to fund a business’ daily operations due to t he time lag between buying raw materials for production and receiving funds from the sale of the final product. With vast amounts invested in working capital, it can be expected that the management of these assets would significantly affect the profitability of a company. Consequently, companies strive to achieve optimize levels of working capital by paying bills as late as possible, turning over inventories quickly, and collecting on account receivables quickly. The optimal level, though, may vary to reflect business conditions. This study examines the role business cycle plays in the working capital-corporate profitability relationship using a sample of Finnish listed companies from years 1990 to 2008.We utilize the cash conversion cycle (CCC), defined as the length of time between a company's expenditure for the procurement of raw materials and the collection of sales of finished goods, as our measure of working capital. We further make use of 2 measures of profitability, return on assets and gross operating income.We document a negative relationship between cash conversion cycle and corporate profitability. Our results also show that companies can achieve higher profitability levels by managing inventories efficiently and lowering accounts receivable collection times. Furthermore shorter account payable cycles enhance corporate profitability. These results, which largely mirror findings from other countries, indicate effective management of firm's total working capital as well as its individual components has a significant effect on corporate profitability levels.Our results also show that economic conditions exhibit measurable influences on the working capital-profitability relationship. The low economic state is generally found to have negative effects on corporate profitability. In particular, we find that the impact of efficient working capital (CCC) on operational profitability increases in economic downturns. We also find that the impact of efficient inventory management and accounts receivables conversion periods, subsets of CCC, on profitability increase in economic downturns.Overall the results indicate that investing in working capital processes and incorporating working capital efficiency into everyday routines is essential for corporate profitability. As a result, firms should include working capital management in their financial planning processes. Additionally, firms generate income and employment. The reduced demand in economic downturns depletes working capital of firms and threatens their stability and, implicitly, their important function as generators of employment and income. National economic policy aimed at boosting cash flows of firms may increase business ability to finance working capital internally, especially during economic down turns.译文营运资本管理对不同商业周期公司盈利能力的影响:证据来自芬兰1.引言本文研究商业周期与营运资本两者之间的联系,流动资产和流动负债之间的区别,以及公司业绩问题。
中国商业银行盈利能力影响因素研究
中国商业银行盈利能力影响因素研究Analysis of the Factors Affecting the Profitabilityof Commercial Banks in China朱子文统计与应用数学学院统计学专业2009(1)班 2009710053指导教师:李小胜副教授内容摘要:作为以营利为目的的金融机构,盈利能力是商业银行生存和发展的重要基础。
但是由于我国现代经济发展起步较晚的原因,我国商业银行业在过去很长一段时间往往只把扩充银行资本量、扩大银行规模作为首要任务而忽略了对盈利能力的发展与提高。
针对“我国商业银行盈利能力影响因素”这个问题,许多专家学者都进行了深入的研究,并得出了很多极具价值的研究成果。
本文以资产收益率(ROA)作为衡量银行盈利能力的指标,选取了国内10家具有代表性的商业银行2004年~2009年间的相关数据作为分析样本,对影响我国商业银行盈利能力的主要因素进行了分析。
得到结论为:商业银行盈利能力与其权益资产率及国内经济状况呈正相关关系,与银行规模、银行信贷率及资产费用率呈负相关关系。
最后根据分析结果对如何提高我国商业银行盈利能力提出相应的建议。
关键词:商业银行;盈利能力;面板数据Abstract: As to the financial institutions for the purpose of profit, profit ability is an important foundation for the survival and development of commercial banks. But due to a late start of modern economic development in China, China's commercial banks for a long time in the past often only to overcharge bank capital, expand the scale of banks as the primary task and ignore the development and improvement of profitability. According to the "factors" the profitability of China's commercial banks influence the problem, many experts and scholars have conducted in-depth research, and obtained many valuable research results.In this paper, return on assets (ROA) as a measure of bank profitability index, the paper selects 10 representative commercial banks in 2004 to 2009 years relevant data as sample for analysis on the main factors affecting the profitability of commercial banks in China are analyzed. The conclusion is: the correlation between the profitability of commercial banks and equity ratio and the domestic economic situation positively, negatively correlates with the size of the bank, the bank credit rate and asset cost rate. Finally, according to results of the analysis of how to improve the profitability of commercial banks in China and put forward the corresponding suggestion.Keywords: Commercial Bank;Profitability;Panel data目录1.引言 (1)1.1研究意义 (1)1.2我国商业银行现状 (1)2. 文献综述 (2)2.1我国学者对商业银行盈利能力的研究 (2)2.2本文的研究特点 (2)3. 指标的选取 (3)3.1指标的选取原则 (3)3.2指标的选取 (3)4. 数据来源及研究方法介绍 (4)4.1数据来源 (4)4.2研究方法介绍 (4)5. 面板模型介绍 (5)5.1面板数据模型解析 (5)5.2面板模型的分类 (5)6.实证分析 (5)6.1实证分析步骤 (5)6.2实证分析结果 (8)7.实证结论分析 (8)7.1银行规模对商业银行盈利能力的影响 (8)7.2银行信贷率对对商业银行盈利能力的影响 (9)7.3权益资产率对商业银行盈利能力的影响 (9)7.4资产费用率对商业银行盈利能力的影响 (9)7.5国内经济状况对商业银行盈利能力的影响 (9)8.建议 (10)9.附言 (10)参考文献 (11)1.引言商业银行作以营利为目的的金融机构,盈利能力是其在经营过程中应当考虑的首要指标,对其生存和发展起到了至关重要的作用。
盈利能力的国外文献综述
盈利能力的国外文献综述
随着全球化和国际化的发展,越来越多的企业开始关注盈利能力。
本文综述了国外关于盈利能力的研究,包括其定义、测量方法、影响因素和管理策略等方面。
首先,盈利能力被定义为企业在特定时期内所获得的净利润或利润率。
这一概念通常被用来衡量企业获得经济利益的能力。
其次,盈利能力的测量方法包括利润率、ROE、ROI等指标。
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润率是企业的净利润与总收入之比,ROE是企业净利润与股东权益之比,ROI是企业净利润与总资产之比。
这些指标可以帮助企业了解其盈利能力的状况,并作出相应的调整。
影响盈利能力的因素包括市场竞争、成本控制、营销策略、资本结构等。
企业需要通过不断优化这些因素来提高其盈利能力。
最后,管理策略是提高盈利能力的关键。
这包括制定合理的财务计划、设定有挑战性但可实现的利润目标、优化营销策略、控制成本等。
同时,企业还需要注重员工培训和创新,以提高企业的竞争力和市场占有率。
总之,盈利能力是企业发展的重要指标之一。
通过合理的测量和管理,在竞争激烈的市场环境中提高盈利能力是企业取得成功的关键。
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中小企业盈利能力分析外文翻译文献
文献信息:文献标题:Skills that improve profitability: The relationship between project management, IT skills, and small to medium enterprise profitability(提高盈利能力的技能: 项目管理、IT 技能和中小型企业盈利能力之间的关系)国外作者:Julien Pollack,Daniel Adler文献出处:《International Journal of Project Management》,2016,34 (5):831-838字数统计:英2683单词,15092字符;中文4479汉字外文文献:Skills that improve profitability:The relationship between project management, IT skills, and small to medium enterprise profitability Abstract It is commonly assumed that using project management and IT skills are good for business performance. This research explored this assumption by testing whether the use of project management and IT skills have a positive affect on business' total sales and profitability. The research data was drawn from two longitudinal Government surveys of small to medium enterprises in Australia. Models were created to describe the relationship between project management, IT skills, profitability and total sales using multiple linear regression and binary logistic regression. The results show that when controlling for the influence of other business skills, project management and IT skills have a significant positive influence on sales and profitability.Keywords:Project management; Information technology; Small to medium enterprise; Profitability; Sales; Business skills1.IntroductionIt is a basic and fundamental assumption that developing business skills in your employees improves the profitability of your business. Although it may be difficult to test each step in the long and diffuse causal chain from an improved employee skill set to a better bottom line, the link between developing employee capability and improved company performance is typically taken as so obvious that it is rarely questioned. This assumption is held for skills such as the ability to manage projects, where it is taken for granted that using project management to reach strategic and operational objectives improves performance. Similarly, we tend to assume that increased information technology (IT) staff capability helps businesses not only survive, but excel in our currently changing technological climate. Were these assumptions false, there would be little justification to support the significant investments that organisations and individuals make on personnel development in these disciplines.Many researchers have commented that project management improves the likelihood of an organisation being successful. The benefits of project management to organisations have been expressed as an improvement in productivity (McHugh and Hogan, 2011; Cleland, 1984), effectiveness (Shenhar et al., 2001), efficiency (Stimpson, 2008), and performance (Abbasi and Al-Mharmah, 2000), while the benefits of IT investment are commonly cited as providing strategic value (Carr, 2003), improved productivity (Hwang et al., 2015), and improved levels of organisational internal entrepreneurship (Benitez-Amando et al., 2010). This body of research appears to provide strong justification for sustaining the assumption that project management and IT skills support financial performance.However, this assumption remains largely unexamined. In the project management literature, the debate more commonly focuses on developing idealised, or contingent, models of project management, ways of implementing these, and the examination of criteria that contribute to the success and failure of projects. In this regard, the IT literature is not that different, with an added emphasis on the impacts and opportunities associated with specific technological developments. In 2012,Hällgren (2012)called for an increased emphasis on research that explores the basic assumptions that underpin project management research and practice, and this research responds to that call by questioning whether the use of project management and IT as core business skills have an impact on businesses' financial performance, focusing on the roles these skills play in Australian small to medium enterprises (SMEs).2.Literature reviewThere is a large body of research that examines the ways in which project management can be improved, developed and refined, so that organisational objectives are delivered more effectively (e.g. Hagen and Park, 2013; Kloppenborg et al., 2014). For instance, there have been a variety of studies that have linked personality types to project success (Creasy and Anantatmula, 2013; Cohen et al., 2013), or factors that impact productivity on projects (Ng et al., 2004). Other research has focused on process related issues, such as the link between project management process maturity and project success (Mir and Pinnington, 2014), or links between the maturity of the portfolio management system in an organisation and project success (Reyck et al., 2005). One consistent emphasis in these studies is that they focus on project success rather than organisational performance. The relationship between project and business success is usually left to implication only.It is more common for research to examine the relationship between IT and organisational performance. However, this “… literature has traditionally shown contradictory results regarding the impact of the IT artefact on firm performance” (Benitez-Amando et al., 2010, p. 551). Taking e-commerce as an example, Hau et al. (2015) found that e-commerce affected the gross operating profit for some categories of hotel, while a cross-sector study by Hwang et al. (2015) found no link between e-commerce and business performance. Other studies have taken an indirect approach, often based on the assumption that IT is an enabler of business functions but not necessarily one that directly impacts upon performance. For example, IT capability has been found to indirectly affect business performance through customer orientation(Nakata et al., 2008). Investment in IT has also been found to positively affect a company's internal entrepreneurship culture, which then indirectly affects company performance (Benitez-Amando et al., 2010), and to enable a proactive environmental strategy, which can in turn mediate the effect of IT on business performance (Benitez-Amando and Walczuch, 2012).In addition to a lack of research that tests the assumption that there is a link between project management skills or IT skills, and financial performance, there is a tendency in the project management literature to focus on mega-projects (e.g. Flyvbjerg, 2014; Eweje et al., 2012; Winch, 2013; Brady and Davies, 2014). In contrast to this prevailing trend, the research presented in this paper focuses on the impact of business skills on small to medium enterprise (SME) performance. The tendency to focus on larger projects is understandable, given how entertaining it is to read of their spectacular failures and successes, and the air of glamour associated with the large sums invested in mega-projects. However, the importance of SMEs to the social and economic health of countries has long been recognised (Beck et al., 2005; Schiffer and Weder, 2001; Ayyagari et al., 2007). It is acknowledged that SMEs may, and do, contribute to larger projects, but SMEs more commonly work on smaller projects. SMEs account for 40–70% of the value added by the business sector, and 70–90% of all enterprises in OECD countries are SMEs (OECD, 2013a, 2013b). This is consistent with data from Australia; the context in which this research is set. In Australia, there were over one million SMEs operating in 2012, representing over 90% of the business sector (ABS, 2012a,b) making SME profitability critical to the broader economy. In these SMEs, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) found IT professional skills in use in one in six SMEs, and project management used by one in eight SMEs (ABS, 2013a).Project management research has often been submerged in the general management research into human resources, sales and marketing (Hudson et al., 2001; Turner et al., 2009; Turner et al., 2010). However, given that project management is a vital skill for SMEs (Turner et al., 2012), the critical role that project management plays in small business success (Sádaba et al.,2014), and the frequency with which ITprofessional skills and project management skills are used in SMEs, there is surprisingly little research which examines how these skills are used by SMEs, and how they affect business profitability.3.MethodologyData for this research was sourced from the ABS Business Longitudinal Database (BLD). The BLD includes data relevant to understanding the performance of Australian businesses. It is compiled from a number of sources, including Australian Government tax records and questionnaire responses. The ABS uses a data quality framework based on the Statistics Canada Quality Assurance Framework (Statistics Canada, 2002) and the European Statistics Code of Practice (Eurostat, 2011). In the case of the survey data used in this research, a quality declaration was issued indicating a response rate of over 95%, and a relative sampling error of less than 10%.In the 2004–2005 financial year, the ABS selected a panel of SMEs based on them being representative of their industry or population group. Business details were sourced from the Australian Business Register (ABR), a database that contains the names and addresses of all businesses that have a registered Australian Business Number (ABN) with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). Panel members were asked to respond to a survey for five consecutive years. The surveys were addressed to the owner/manager of the business, as listed in the ABR, asking them to complete and return the survey. Panel size was determined based on the expected dropout rate, and designed to ensure that a sufficiently large number of businesses remained in each industry sector and size classification for statistical analysis at the end of the five year period. New members were not introduced to the panel after the first year.This research makes reference to two panels. Panel 1 includes data from the 2004–2005 financial year to 2009–2010, and Panel 2 includes data from the 2006–2007 to the 2010–2011 financial year. The BLD uses a variety of selection criteria for panel inclusion, including the requirements that businesses have less than 200 employees, that the business has a simple structure, and has only a single ABN (ABS,2013b). The Oslo Manual survey development guidelines for measuring business innovation (OECD/Eurostat, 2005) were referenced in the development of the survey, and the BLD integrates with limited data from the ATO. These panels are of interest because they included questions regarding the core business skills that respondents used in conducting their business (ABS, 2012a,b).4. Data analysisThe data analysis presented in this paper focuses on three questions:(1)During the previous year, were any of the following types of skills used by the business in undertaking its core activities: engineering (ENG); scientific and research (SCI); IT professionals (ITP); IT support technicians (ITS); trades (TRA); transport; plant and machinery operation (MAC); marketing (MAR); project management (PM); business management (BUS); and financial (FIN).(2)Total sales, as reported in Australian Tax Office Business Activity Statements.(3)Compared with the previous year, did profitability decrease, stay the same, or increase?5.DiscussionIt was found that project management skills, IT professional and support skills, financial skills and business management skills had a significant positive relationship with the SME's total reported sales in both panels. Of the business skills tested in the BLD, project management skills were shown to have the strongest positive correlation to total sales. The results for transport, plant and machinery operation skills were inconclusive, as they only significantly affected sales results in one panel. Marketing and trades skills were not found to have a significant influence on sales results, the former of which is particularly noteworthy given its general disciplinary focus. It is also interesting to note that while scientific and research skills did show an influence on total sales in both panels, it was a negative. A possible explanation for this result can be attributed to the high-risks often associated with research and development. An alternative explanation is that research and development return on investment mayonly become apparent over a longer time scale than this survey has captured. Profitable research and development may be more viable in larger organisations than those that participated in the BLD, as larger organisations are more likely to be able to support the overheads associated with specialist scientific equipment, and have the contingency to survive the inevitable costs of failure associated with discovery.The intention of this research is to explore whether a reliable relationship exists between a selection of skills that SMEs sometimes use in undertaking their core business, their profitability, and their sales figures. It is important to note that the research purpose has not been to develop predictive models that include all factors influencing the dependent variable. This distinction is important, and the authors acknowledge that many variables influencing SME profitability and sales have not been considered in this research. The skills that individuals bring to a business will certainly affect how profitable it is, and it is arguable that the skills of any one individual will be proportionally more influential in an SME than a large corporation, but business skills by no means exclusively determine business profitability and sales. This research makes no comment about other factors that may be relevant, such as the maturity of the business, the competitive environment, government policies, the prevailing business climate, or organisational culture.Three other limitations to this research should also be observed. firstly, the responses to the question about changing profitability will have been affected by the ability of respondents to accurately perceive this change. However, this possible source of error will at least have partly been ameliorated by the creation of the second set of models that described changes in sales figures. Second, the panels also exclusively focus on businesses with less than 200 employees in Australia. This should be considered when extending these research findings to businesses in other countries, or to larger organisations. Third, it is expected that there will have been a variation in how the respondents understood what it is to use these business skills, as the survey instrument did not provide definitions. One respondent may have considered that creating a simple time line on a spread sheet counts as using project management, while another may have thought project management to be practicedonly by those with a higher degree. Similar variation may have occurred in how respondents interpreted IT skills, what it means for these skills to have been used ‘by the business’, and variation in the degree to which these skills played a role in the businesses. However, it is likely that there has been some convergence towards a common understanding of these business skills given the sample size. Other areas for future research could involve exploration of the boundary between when different business skills are considered to be used in a SME's core business, how this may vary in larger organisations, and factors that affect how changes in profitability are perceived.6.ConclusionIn response to Hällgren's (2012) call for an increased emphasis on research that explores the basic assumptions that underpin project management research and practice, this paper has explored whether project management and IT skills improve business results. The research was conducted using two longitudinal databases, and it was found that the surveyed businesses that used project management more commonly reported an increase in profitability, and less commonly reported a decrease in profitability. At least 10% more of the population that used project management reported increasing profitability, and 5% less of the population reported a decrease in profitability, compared to those who did not use project management. Furthermore, businesses that used project management reported sales figures that were on average three times higher than those that did not.The hypotheses that project management and IT professional skills have a significant positive relationship with SME profitability were tested using binomial logistic regression. When controlling for the influence of other comparable business skills, project management and IT professional skills were found to have a significant positive influence on the likelihood of a SME reporting an increase in profitability. The hypotheses that project management and IT professional skills have a significant impact on SME total sales were tested using multiple linear regression. When controlling for the influence of other business skills, it was found that projectmanagement and IT professional skills have a significant positive relationship with total sales.The results presented in this paper indicate that using project management and IT professional skills to undertake core business activities make a significant contribution to improving the financial performance of small to medium enterprises.Companies often have to make difficult decisions about investment in resources. This is particularly significant for small to medium enterprises, where both human and financial resources may be scarce. Strategic decisions about investment in personnel and their development can have a significant impact on company performance. When considering which skills it is worthwhile developing as organisational capabilities, this research has shown that investment in project management and IT professional skills may have the greatest impact on an organisation's performance.中文译文:提高盈利能力的技能:项目管理、IT技能和中小型企业盈利能力之间的关系摘要通常假设,使用项目管理和IT技能对业务绩效有好处。
外文文献翻译【欧盟国内外银行盈利能力影响因素分析】
1外文资料翻译译文欧盟国内外银行盈利能力影响因素分析摘要:本文使用银行级数据,通过1995 - 2001年期间国内和外国银行在15个欧盟国家的商业运营情况来了解银行的具体特点和整体银行业环境对影响盈利能力。
结果表明, 国内和外国银行的盈利能力不仅受银行具体特点的影响,也受金融市场结构和宏观经济条件的影响。
除了在集中情况下国内银行利润, 所有的变量都是有重大意义的,尽管它们的影响和关系对国内和国外银行并不总是相同。
1 介绍在过去的几年许多的因素造成了欧盟银行业竞争日益激烈。
最重要的因素之一是针对服务、建立、运行和监督信贷机构的第二个欧洲指令出台,在银行和金融领域放松管制。
这个指令为所有欧洲银行机构在单一欧洲金融市场和提供了平等的竞争条件,因此银行正在先前无法预料的国内外竞争之中。
另外, 最近一些的技术进步对规模经济和范围提供了更多的机会,而采用欧元也加速了行业的变化。
此外,宏观经济政策后大多数国家通货膨胀率和利率逐步降低。
最后,在越来越多的欧洲国家非金融公司被允许提供传统的银行服务,并且在竞争中进一步提高,银行被迫产生新的产品和寻找新客户。
许多银行为了参加欧洲市场和银行业扩大被迫增加规模,通过合并和收购的方式进行了前所未有的整合。
在环境快速变化的情况下,这些变化给在欧盟的银行带来很大的挑战,因此影响了他们的效能。
格林指出,充足的收益是必要的条件让银行保持偿付能力,在一个合适的环境生存、发展和繁荣。
考虑到银行业的健康发展和经济知识增长,影响银行的盈利能力的潜在因素不仅和管理者有关,而且和众多利益相关者如中央银行,银行家协会、政府以及其他金融当局有关。
2 文献综述参考文献与本文可分为三大类。
第一部分是研究集中于银行的盈利能力的决定因素。
第二部分包括研究欧洲银行的利润和成本效率。
第三由研究比较国内外银行。
在下面几个部分中,我们讨论这些类别中的每一个。
3 决定因素和变量选择3.1 因变量本研究使用平均资产回报率(ROAA)来评估银行的性能。
商业银行盈利能力及影响因素分析
商业银行盈利能力及影响因素分析汇报人:2024-01-02•商业银行盈利能力概述•影响商业银行盈利能力的因素•商业银行盈利能力分析方法目录•我国商业银行盈利能力分析•提高我国商业银行盈利能力的对策建议01商业银行盈利能力概述0102盈利能力的定义盈利能力是评价商业银行经营绩效的重要指标之一,也是投资者和债权人关注的重点。
盈利能力是指商业银行在一定时期内通过经营业务获取利润的能力。
盈利能力的衡量指标净利润净利润是商业银行最主要的盈利指标,反映了银行的最终经营成果。
资产收益率(ROA)资产收益率是净利润与总资产的比值,反映了银行使用资产创造利润的能力。
净利息收益率(NIM)净利息收益率是净利息收入与总生息资产的比值,反映了银行通过贷款和存款获取利息收入的能力。
商业银行盈利模式利息收入商业银行通过贷款和存款之间的利率差获取利息收入。
非利息收入商业银行通过提供中间业务、投资银行业务等获取非利息收入。
成本节约商业银行通过降低成本、提高效率等方式增加利润。
02影响商业银行盈利能力的因素资本充足率是衡量银行抵御风险能力的重要指标,资本充足率越高,银行的抗风险能力越强,盈利能力越有保障。
资本充足率资产质量的好坏直接影响银行的盈利能力,不良贷款率、逾期贷款率等指标都会对银行的盈利能力产生影响。
资产质量银行的业务结构也会影响其盈利能力,如贷款、存款、投资等业务的比例,以及中间业务的占比等。
业务结构银行的管理能力,包括风险管理、内部控制、财务管理等方面的能力,都会对银行的盈利能力产生影响。
管理能力宏观经济环境宏观经济环境的变化对银行的盈利能力产生重大影响,如经济增长、通货膨胀、利率水平、政策法规等。
金融市场环境金融市场的竞争状况、市场利率水平、金融监管政策等因素也会影响银行的盈利能力。
客户需求变化客户需求的变化也会影响银行的盈利能力,如存款、贷款、理财等业务的需求变化。
科技进步科技的进步对银行的业务模式和服务方式产生影响,如互联网金融的发展、移动支付的普及等,都会对银行的盈利能力产生影响。
财务报表分析外文文献及翻译
财务报表分析外文文献及翻译LNTU---Acc附录A财务报表分析的杠杆左右以及如何体现盈利性和值比率摘要关键词:财政杠杆;运营债务杠杆;股本回报率;值比率传统观点认为,杠杆效应是从金融活动中产生的:公司通过借贷来增加运营的资金。
杠杆作用的衡量标准是负债总额与股东权益。
然而,一些负债——如银行贷款和发行的债券,是由于资金筹措,其他一些负债——如贸易应付账款,预收收入和退休金负债,是由于在运营过程中与供应商的贸易,与顾客和雇佣者在结算过程中产生的负债。
融资负债通常交易运作良好的资本市场其中的发行者是随行就市的商人。
与此相反,在运营中公司能够实现高增值。
因为业务涉及的是与资本市场相比,不太完善的贸易的输入和输出的市场。
因此,考虑到股票估值,运营负债和融资负债的区别的产生有一些先验的原因。
我们研究在资产负债表上,运营负债中的一美元是否与融资中的一美元等值这个问题。
因为运营负债和融资负债是股票价值的组成部分,这个问题就相当于问是否股价与账面价值比率是否取决于账面净值的组成。
价格与账面比率是由预期回报率的账面价值决定的。
所以,如果部分的账面价值要求不同的溢价,他们必须显示出不同的账面价值的预期回报率。
因此,标准的财务报表分析的能够区分股东从运营中和借贷的融资业务中产生的利润。
因此,资产回报有别于股本回报率,这种差异是由于杠杆作用。
然而,在标准的分析中,经营负债不区别于融资负债。
因此,为了制定用于实证分析的规范,我们的研究结果是用于愿意分析预期公司的收益和账面收益率。
这些预测和估值依赖于负债的组成。
这篇文章结构如下。
第一部分概述并指出了了能够判别两种杠杆作用类型,连接杠杆作用和盈利的财务报表分析第二节将杠杆作用,股票价值和价格与账面比率联系在一起。
第三节中进行实证分析,第四节进行了概述与结论。
1 杠杆作用的财务报表分析以下财务报表分析将融资债务和运营债务对股东权益的影响区别开。
这个分析从实证的详细分析中得出了精确的杠杆效应等式普通股产权资本收益率=综合所得?普通股本(1) 杠杆影响到这个盈利等式的分子和分母。
上市公司盈利能力分析 外文文献翻译
文献出处:Gnanasooriyar M S. Profitability analysis of listed manufacturing companies in Sri Lanka: An empirical investigation[J]. European Journal of Business and Management, 2014, 6(34): 358-364第一部分为译文,第二部分为原文。
默认格式:中文五号宋体,英文五号Times New Roma,行间距1.5倍。
制造业上市公司在斯里兰卡的盈利能力分析:一个实证调查摘要:本文是对2008年至2012年期间的选择10家在斯里兰卡的制造业上市公司的盈利能力,以及对四种常用的财务业绩指标分析:总利润(GR),净利润(NP),资产收益率(ROA)和净资产收益率(ROE)。
结果表明,在此期间斯里兰卡制造企业是相当多的盈利在GP和ROA,但利润较低的条件在NP和净资产收益率方面。
结果表明,制造企业的盈利能力是不太令人满意的。
皇家陶瓷有限公司的毛利率和净利率排第一,ABANS电气公司资产收益率第一,皇家陶瓷公司净资产收益率第一。
这项研究的结果对学者,政策制定者,从业人员等有借鉴意义的。
关键词:盈利能力分析,上市制造企业,斯里兰卡引言利润是收入超过相关费用过量在一段时间的活动。
凯恩斯勋爵指出,“利润是驱动企业的发动机”。
每个企业都应该获得足够的利润来生存和发展在一段较长的时间。
这是该指数在经济发展,提高国民收入和生活水平的不断提高。
利润是判断不只是经济准绳,但管理效率和社会目标也。
盈利手段,使利润从组织,公司,公司或企业的所有业务活动的能力。
它显示了如何有效地管理,可以通过使用所有市面上的资源赚取利润。
据Harward和厄普顿,“盈利是“赚其使用返回给定投资的能力。
”然而,长期的盈利能力“不是同义术语‘效率’。
利润率是效率的索引; 和被认为是效率和管理指南,更高的效率的量度。
《2024年城市商业银行盈利能力影响因素实证研究》范文
《城市商业银行盈利能力影响因素实证研究》篇一一、引言随着中国金融市场的日益开放和竞争加剧,城市商业银行作为我国金融体系的重要组成部分,其盈利能力的研究显得尤为重要。
本文旨在通过实证研究,深入探讨影响城市商业银行盈利能力的关键因素,以期为提升其经营效率和竞争力提供理论支持。
二、研究背景及意义近年来,城市商业银行在服务地方经济、支持中小企业发展等方面发挥着重要作用。
然而,随着金融市场的开放和外资银行的进入,城市商业银行面临着巨大的竞争压力。
因此,研究其盈利能力的影响因素,对于提高其经营效率、增强竞争力具有重要意义。
三、文献综述前人关于商业银行盈利能力的研究主要集中在资本充足率、资产质量、风险控制、服务质量等方面。
研究表明,这些因素对商业银行的盈利能力具有显著影响。
然而,由于各地区、各银行之间的差异,这些影响因素的具体作用机制和程度可能存在差异。
因此,本文以城市商业银行为研究对象,进一步探讨其盈利能力的影响因素。
四、研究方法与数据来源本文采用实证研究方法,以我国城市商业银行为研究对象,收集相关数据,运用统计软件进行分析。
数据来源主要包括各银行年报、银监会公布的数据以及相关研究报告。
五、实证研究1. 变量选择与模型构建本文选取资本充足率、资产质量、风险控制、服务质量、宏观经济因素等作为影响因素,以城市商业银行的净资产收益率(ROE)为被解释变量,构建多元线性回归模型。
2. 描述性统计分析通过对各变量进行描述性统计分析,发现城市商业银行的资本充足率、资产质量等指标存在较大差异,这可能与其盈利能力存在一定关系。
3. 实证结果分析通过多元线性回归分析,发现资本充足率、资产质量、风险控制和服务质量对城市商业银行的盈利能力具有显著影响。
其中,资本充足率和资产质量对盈利能力具有正向影响,而风险控制则对盈利能力具有负向影响。
此外,宏观经济因素如GDP增长率、市场利率等也对城市商业银行的盈利能力产生影响。
六、讨论与结论1. 讨论本文研究表明,资本充足率、资产质量、风险控制和服务质量是影响城市商业银行盈利能力的重要因素。
中国商业银行盈利能力影响因素分析
中国商业银行盈利能力影响因素分析中国商业银行作为金融体系中的重要角色,其盈利能力直接影响着整个金融体系的稳定和发展。
一般来说,商业银行盈利能力的影响因素可以从多个方面进行分析,如资本充足度、资产管理、负债管理、经营效益等方面。
本文将从这些角度进行分析,探讨中国商业银行盈利能力的影响因素。
一、资本充足度资本充足度是衡量商业银行盈利能力的重要指标之一。
资本充足度直接影响着银行的偿付能力和经营风险。
过低的资本充足度会使银行在面对经济波动和市场风险时难以有效应对,进而影响银行的盈利能力。
资本充足度对商业银行的盈利能力具有重要的影响。
资本充足度受到多方面因素的影响,其中包括资本结构、盈利稳定性、资产质量等。
资本结构决定了银行的资本充足度水平,盈利稳定性可以直接影响到资本充足度的维持水平,而资产质量则影响着资本充足度的衡量指标。
银行需要关注并合理管理这些因素,以提高资本充足度水平,从而增强盈利能力。
二、资产管理资产管理是影响商业银行盈利能力的重要方面。
资产的质量、收益率和规模都直接影响着银行的盈利能力。
对于资产质量来说,银行需要关注信贷风险、市场风险和流动性风险,有效管理这些风险可以保障资产的质量,进而提高盈利能力。
对于资产收益率来说,银行需要通过差异化的资产配置和投资管理,以提高资产的收益率,从而增强盈利能力。
对于资产规模来说,银行需要通过扩大资产规模,提高经济效益,进而增强盈利能力。
资产管理还需要关注资金投入和成本控制。
银行在资产管理过程中,需要合理配置资金投入,并通过成本控制措施降低运营成本,从而提高资产管理的盈利能力。
三、负债管理负债管理还需要关注资金来源和风险控制。
银行在负债管理过程中,需要建立多元化的资金来源,提高资金的灵活性,从而增强盈利能力。
银行也需要通过风险控制措施,保障负债安全,降低负债风险,从而提高盈利能力。
四、经营效益经营效益是影响商业银行盈利能力的关键因素。
经营效益包括营业收入和营业成本两个方面,直接影响着银行的盈利能力。
企业财务风险管理 外文文献翻译
文献出处:Błach J. Financial Risk Identification Based on the Balance Sheet Information[J]. Managing and Modelling of Financial Risks, 2016,1: 10-19.第一部分为译文,第二部分为原文。
默认格式:中文五号宋体,英文五号Times New Roma,行间距1.5倍。
基于资产负债表信息的财务风险识别摘要:现代经济风险暴露不断增加,所有企业都要承担不同类型的风险。
本文研究财务风险的定义,组成部分,因素和后果,以及通过资产负债表提供的信息的使用来识别和分析财务风险。
此外,还介绍了这种财务风险评估方法的优缺点,以100个最大波兰公司10年(2000-2009年)的汇总数据为例,测试了根据资产负债表信息确定财务风险的潜力。
关键词:财务风险,财务分析,风险评估,资产负债表。
1. 引言现代社会往往被描述为“风险社会”,这意味着社会的财富生产伴随着社会风险生产。
因此,在这种环境下经营的企业,被迫采取不同类型的风险识别,以发展自己,提高效率。
考虑到不同类型的标准,有各种各样的企业风险进行分析和分类。
企业风险最重要的类型之一是财务风险。
2.财务风险定义及其组成部分文献中没有统一的财务风险定义。
但问题始于风险的一般定义。
在理论上,提出了风险定义的两个概念。
第一个-负面概念将风险描述为潜在损失的威胁。
第二个-中立概念表明,风险不仅是威胁,也是机会,所以风险意味着获得不同于预期的结果的可能性。
因此,风险的定义主要取决于风险的方法,并且可能导致管理者采取的不同行动。
如果采取负面做法,管理人员的主要目标是尽可能减少潜在的损失,并设法避免危险行为,以稳定公司的情况。
在第二种情况下,经理们不仅要尽量减少损失,还要尽量利用承担风险,改善公司状况。
因此,可以从中性或消极的角度分析任何类型的风险的金融风险。
有关盈利能力的外文文献
有关盈利能力的外文文献盈利能力是企业经营的核心指标之一,直接关系到企业的生存与发展。
本文将通过对多篇外文文献的综合分析,探讨盈利能力的相关因素和提升方法。
1. 文献A:《盈利能力与企业规模的关系》这篇文献研究了盈利能力与企业规模之间的关系。
研究发现,企业规模对盈利能力有重要影响。
大型企业通常拥有更多的资源和市场份额,能够更有效地利用规模经济效应,从而提升盈利能力。
同时,大型企业在市场竞争中也更具竞争优势,能够更好地应对市场变化,进一步提高盈利能力。
2. 文献B:《盈利能力的影响因素分析》该文献对盈利能力的影响因素进行了深入研究。
研究发现,市场需求、产品竞争力、成本控制和管理能力是影响盈利能力的关键因素。
市场需求决定了企业销售额的大小,产品竞争力决定了企业能否获得更高的市场份额。
成本控制和管理能力直接影响企业的成本和效率,进而影响盈利能力的提升。
3. 文献C:《盈利能力的提升策略》该文献提出了一些提升盈利能力的策略。
首先,企业应不断提高产品质量和创新能力,以提升产品竞争力,从而获得更高的市场份额和利润。
其次,企业应积极控制成本,提高经营效率,降低生产成本。
此外,合理的财务管理和资金运作也是提升盈利能力的重要手段。
最后,企业还应积极拓展市场,开拓新的销售渠道和客户群体,以扩大销售规模,实现更高的盈利能力。
4. 文献D:《行业竞争对盈利能力的影响》该文献研究了行业竞争对企业盈利能力的影响。
研究发现,行业竞争激烈度对企业盈利能力有显著影响。
在竞争激烈的行业中,企业需要更加注重产品创新和市场营销,提高产品差异化和品牌影响力,才能在竞争中占据优势,实现盈利能力的提升。
总结起来,企业的盈利能力受到多个因素的影响,包括企业规模、市场需求、产品竞争力、成本控制、管理能力以及行业竞争等。
为提升盈利能力,企业应注重提高产品质量和创新能力,积极控制成本,合理管理财务和资金运作,拓展市场,并根据行业竞争情况采取相应的策略。
盈利能力分析外文文献 盈利能力分析相关的外文翻译和英文原文
盈利能力分析外文文献盈利能力分析相关的外文翻译和英文原文导读:就爱阅读网友为您分享以下“盈利能力分析相关的外文翻译和英文原文”的资讯,希望对您有所帮助,感谢您对的支持!客户盈利能力分析的实施:案例研究埃里克?M、凡?RAAIJ、桑德凡?彻斯特特文特大学技术与管理学院摘要:通过使用客户盈利能力分析(CPA),企业可以决定客户群和/或个人客户的利润贡献。
本文介绍了CPA的实施1办法。
执行过程中使用的是公司产的案例研究和销售的专业清洁产品说明。
这个案例研究突出了工业环境与CPA的具体问题,并把结果提供了实施定期CPA过程中可能带来的好处的例子。
关键词:客户盈利;客户关系管理(CRM);实施;案例分析。
1. 介绍:在任何给定的客户群,将有客户产生的公司,并在公司有承担,以确保这些收入成本收入差异。
虽然大多数公司将了解客户的收入,很多企业并不知道与客户关系有关的所有费用。
在一般情况下,产品成本将被称为为每一个客户,但销售和市场营销,服务和支持成本大多视为开销。
客户盈利能力分析(CPA)是指收入和成本分配到细分客户或个人客户,这样,这些段和/或单个客户的盈利能力可以计算出来。
CPA日益关注的动力是双重的。
首先,不同产品作业成本法在上世纪90年代兴起(ABC)导致了不同程度的提高认识到制造业使用公司的资源。
当使用ABC,公司首先确定成本库:组织内进行的活动类别。
其次,信息技术使得有可能记录和分析更多的客户的数据在类型和量中。
随着数据如订单2数量,销售访问次数,服务电话号码等存储在各个客户的水平,有可能去实际计算客户盈利。
它被认为是良好的行业营销实践建立和培养与客户的利益关系。
为了能够做到这一点,企业应该懂得目前的客户关系不同的盈利能力,以及什么客户群提供更高的潜力,未来盈利的客户关系。
2. CPA的潜在效益CPA的直接好处在于它提供了在成本和收入超过客户分布不均的情况。
在成本中的客户传播的信息将是特别有价值的,因为收入分配一般是已知的公司。
外文翻译--采纳网上银行的影响因素
(二)网上银行采用的模式客户与银行交互的几种方法。
虽然传统上,大部分交易发生在分行的柜台,新技术的银行客户降低了成本。
例如自动柜员机(ATM)由20世纪80年代中期开始普及,使得一些交易变得更容易。
电话银行,最初人类的操作和更高的语音自动化,减少需要访问一个银行的分行。
近年来,特别是自1995年以来,互联网已使银行更容易,并允许机构为他们的客户提供新的服务,从而进一步降低的一个分支办公室需要停止。
建立一个交易网站的成本在最近几年有较大幅度下降,显着的成本节约,它需要非常有利可图的。
可靠的交易网站设置的成本估计是很难获得的。
赛讯咨询公司,一家金融咨询公司估计,在2000年建立一个内部的网上银行系统的成本超过50万美元,虽然成本大致一样,但是IT外包服务外包选项应该是像在更具吸引力,规模较小的银行我们的样本。
我们的计量规范抓住了网上银行成本的时间趋势的一部分。
关于边际成本,网上交易的成本估计为互联网的广泛使用,低至0.01美元的交易成本为1.10美元,这些成本节约的一个分支图1 在2003-2006年期间,通过网上银行的银行比例有诱惑规模较小的银行采用这种技术。
根据德扬(2001年),约1100家银行和储蓄机构经营的交易网站于1999年。
在2003年初,这个数字上升到约4000家银行。
其后,银行通过网上银行每季度约5%的速度。
到2006年约有6600家银行(占总数的80%),网上银行他们的顾客的反应,图1反应出了最近几年的演变。
显示了两种迥然不同的银行通过网上银行开始前的,那些尚未通过。
非采用一般条款的存款(总资产),并有平均约80%的分支机构。
他们还工作和活动在更少的市场,非城市市场投入了较大的比例。
早期采用的较大规模的,符合前面提到的排名效果,是很自然的有以下几个原因。
其中主要的一个,正如前面提到的,是在线服务的安装成本可能是不敏感的银行规模。
此外,规模较小的银行面临更多的挑战。
例如,弥敦道(1999)强调,社区银行(通常被定义为银行,总资产1亿美元或更少)更多地依赖于接触更紧密,更个性化的客户筛选。
外文文献企业盈利能力分析
文献出处:标题 : A ssessm ent of Financial R isk in Firm 's Profitability A naly sis作者 : S olomon, Daniela C ristina; M untean, M i rcea出版物名称 : Economy Transdisciplinarity C og nition卷 : 15期 : 2页 : 58 -67页数 : 10出版年份 : 2012A ssessm en t of F in a n c ia l R isk in F ir m ' s P r ofita b i l i t y A n a ly sisA bstract: In the contex t of g lobalization w e are w i tnessing an unprecedented diversification of risk situations and uncertainty in the business w orld, the w hole ex i stence of an org anization being related to risk . The notion of risk i s inextricably l inked to the return. R eturn includes ensuring remuneration of production factors and invested capital but a lso resources manag em ent in terms of efficiency and effectiveness. A full financial and econom ic diag nosis can not be done w i thout reg a rd to the return-risk ra tio.S tock profitability analy s i s should not be dissociated from risk analy s i s to w hich the com pany i s subdued. R isk analy sis i s useful in decision making concerning the use of economic-financial potential or investm ent decisions, in developing business plans, and a lso to inform partners about the enterprise's performa nce level.R i sk takes many form:, operational risk, financial risk and tota l risk , risk of bankruptcy ( other risk categ ories) each influencing the business activity on a g reater or lesser extent. Financial risk analy s i s, realized w i th the use of specific indicators such as: financial leverag e , financial breakeven and leverag e ra tio ( C LF) accompany ing call to debt, presents a major interest to optim ize the financial s tructure and viability of any com pany operating under a g enuine m arket econom y .Key w ords: risk analy sis fina ncial risk , financial leverag e , breakeven point.IntroductionR i sk and return a re tw o interdependent aspects in the activity of a com pany , so the question i s assuming a certain level of risk to achieve the profitability that it a l low s. R eturn can only be assessed but on the basis of supported risk . This risk a ffects econom ic asset returns first, and secondly of capital invested. Therefore it can be addressed both in terms of business, as the org anizer of the production process driven by intention to increase property ow ners and adequate remuneration of production factors and the position of outside financial investors, interested in carry ing the best investm ent, in financial market conditions w i th several areas of return and different risk levels.R isk assessm ent should consider manag ing chang e : people chang e , methods chang e , the risks chang e [ 1 , 36 ] .C onsequently , profitability i s subject to the g eneral condition of risk w here the org anization operates. R i sk takes m any forms, each a ffecting the ag ents' econom ic activity on a lesser or g reater ex tent. For econom ic and financial analy sis a t the micro level presents a particular interest those form s of risk that ca n be influenced, in the sense of reduction, throug h the actions and measures the economic ag ents can underg o.1.. Financial R i sk in Economic Theory and PracticeFinancial activity , in i ts m any seg m ents is influenced by unex pectedly restrictive e lem ents as evolution, often unexpected, not depending directly on economic ag ents. Impact of various factors ( m a rket, competition, tim e factor,inflation, ex chang e rates, interest, com missions, human factors and not least the company culture) often mak es financial decision become a decision under risk.Financial risk characterizes variability in net profit, under the company 's financial structure. There a re no financial templa te features, each business activity prints i ts ow n sig nificant varia tions from case to case. In the case of reta i l ers, "intang ible assets a re less important, but stocks a re significant, and the appeal to credit provider is frequently used, being very useful for treasury business" [ 2 , 40 ] .A n optim a l capital structure w i l l max imize enterprise value by balancing the deg ree of risk and ex pected return rate.M anag em ent of financial risk is an integ ra l part of planning and financial control, subm itted to strateg ic and tactical decisions for a continuous adaptation to inside and outside company conditions, constantly chang ing and it requires:-identification of a reas that are prone to risk;-l ikelihood estima tion of financial risk production;-determining the independence relations betw een financial risk and other significant risks ( operational risk , market risk - interest rate fluctuations);-delim i ta tion of risk and keeping i t under observation to stop or diminish ( minim ize) the effect;-identify causal factors for financial risk, in order to define potential adverse effects induced on the overall activity of the company ;-determining the risk as quantifiable s i ze, as w ell as the effects associated to risk occurrence;-determining the routes to follow and strateg ies to fit the company 's financial activity in an area of financial certainty .Financial risk i ssues can be found a t the heart of R om anian accountant's norma l izors. A ccording to the OM PF 3055 /2 009 , the B oard m ust prepare for each financial y ear a report, called a M anag ers ' report, w hich must include, besides an accurate presentation of development and performance of the entity 's activity and i ts financial position, a lso a description of main risks and uncertainties that i t fa ces.Thus, M anag ers report must provide information on: the objectives and policies of the entity concerning financial risk m anag ement, including i ts policy for risk covering for each major ty pe of forecasted transaction for w hich risk coverag e accounting i s used, and entity 's exposure to market risk, credit risk , l i quidity risk and cash flow .R equired disclosures provide information to help users of financial statem ents in evaluating the risk financial instrum ents, recog nized or not in balance sheet.The m a in categ ories of financial risks a ffecting the company 's performance a re [ 3 ] :1 . M arket risk that com prises three ty pes of risk :0 currency risk - the risk that the value of a financial instrument { Financial instrum ent i s defined according OM FP 3055 /2 009 , A rt. 126 , as: ''... any contract that s im ultaneously g enerates a financial active for an entity and a financial debt or equity instrument for another entity ") w i l l fluctuate because of chang es in currency exchang e rates; the low ering of ex chang e rate can lead to a loss of value of assets denominated in foreig n currency thus influencing business perform ance;0 fa i r value interest rate risk - the risk that the value of a financial instrument w i l l fluctuate due to chang es in market interest ra tes;0 price risk - the risk that the value of a financial instrum ent w i l l fluctuate as a result of chang ing market prices, eveni f these chang es are caused by factors specific to individual instruments or their i ssuer, or factors a ffecting a l l instrum ents traded in the ma rket. The term "market risk " incorporates not only the potential loss but as w e l l the g a in.2.. C redit risk - the risk that a party of financial instrument w i l l not to com ply w i th the undertaking , causing the other party a financial loss.3.. Liquidity risk - ( a lso called funding risk) is risk that an entity meets in difficulties in procuring the necessary funds to m eet com mitm ents related to financial instrum ents. L iquidity risk ma y result from the inability to quickly se l l a financial asset a t a value close to i ts fa i r va lue.4.. Interest ra te risk from cash flow - i s the risk that future cash flow s w i l l fluctuate because of chang es in ma rket interest rates. For ex am ple, i f a variable rate debt instruments, such fluctuations a re to chang e the effective interest rate financial instrument, w i thout a corresponding chang e in its fa i r va lue.Financial environment i s characterized by a hig h interest rate volatility , w hich translates in term s of risk and indiscriminate harm s the va lue and profitability of any enterprise [ 4 , 89 ] . Interest ra te risk on the balance sheet i s reflected by chang es in m arket value of an asset, as the present value of an asset i s determ ined by discounting cash flow s using interest rate or w eig hted averag e cost of capital [ 5 , 89 ] .2 . Financial R isk A ssessmentFinancial risk assessm ent is performed by using specific indicators such as: financial leverag e, financial breakeven and leverag e factor ( C L F) w hose values ex press fluctuations in net profit, under the company 's financial structure chang e .Financial leverag e effectFinancial ri sk or capital concerns the com pany 's financial structure and depends on the manner of funding the activity : i f it is w holly financed by equity , i t w i l l not involve financial risk . This risk appears only if loan financing sources involving charg e to pay interest and show s a direct influence on financial profitability ( of equity ) [ 6 , 170 ] .Debt, the size and cost drives the variability of results and autom a tica l l y chang es the financial risk. The size of influence of financial structure on firm performance has produced financial leverag e effect, w hich can be defined as the m echanism throug h w hich debt a ffects return on equity , return on the ratio of benefits ( net income) and equity .B etw een economic profitability and financial return there i s a tig ht correlation. Financial return is rooted in economic returns. The difference betw een the tw o rates is g enerated by com pany policy options for funding . U sually , on equal economic rate return, financial profitability ra tes vary depending on finance source - from ow n equity or borrow ed capital.In econom ic theory the link betw een financial profitability ra te ( R f) and econom ic ra te of return ( R e) is hig hlig hted by the follow ing equation:...w here: d = averag e interest rate; D= total debts; C pr = ow n equity ;...If for calculation of return ra tes profit tax i s taken into account, the relationship becomes [ 6 , 170 ] :w here: i=the tax rate....W e can see the influence that financial structure, respective "all financial resources or capital composition that financial manag er use to increase the needed funding " [ 7 , 36 ] , has on the overall profitability of the company . B y reporting total debt ( D) to ow n equity ( C PR ) i s determined financial leverag e ( L F) ( or leverag e ratio) reflecting the proportion of g rants to loans and g rants to i ts ow n resources. The report should not ex ceed the value 2 , otherw i se the debt capacity of the enterprise i s considered saturated, and borrow ing above this l im i t lead to the risk of insolvency , both to the borrow er and the lender.The financial leverag e effect ( E L F) results from the difference betw een financial and economic return and "ex pressesthe impact of debt on the entity 's equity , the ratio betw een ex ternal and domestic financing ( dom estic resources) " [ 2 , 40 ] thus reflecting the influence offinancial structure on the perform ance of an entity :...Depending or not on the consideration of income tax , net or g ross ra tes of return can be measured, i.e . net or raw financial leverag e effect, as follow s:Debt i s favorable w hile the interest rate i s inferior to the ra te of economic profitability , w hich has a positive influence on financial ra te of the company .Financial leverag e i s even g reater as the difference betw een economic profitability and interest rate i s hig her, in this respect can be seen several cases presented in Table 1 .Leverag e effect a l low s evolution stimulation for financial profitability according to the chang e in funding policy of the enterprise being an im portant param eter for stra teg ic business decisions [ 8 , 164 -165 ] .B ased on the balance sheet and profit and loss account of tw o studied companies' rates of return and financial leverag e a re determ ined, as presented in table no. 2 .From the analy sis of the data presented in Table 2 w e may see the follow ing conclusions:1.. Economic and financial rates of return, in the case of S .C . A L FA S .A . follow s an upw a rd trend recently analy zed aspect reflecting the increased efficiency in the use of equity capital invested, w hile for S .C . B ETA S .A . evolution is a descendant one.2.. R eturn on equity ( equity efficiency ) w as hig her than the ra te of economic profitability ( econom ic efficiency of assets, invested capital respectively ) throug hout the period under review follow ing a positive financial leverag e ( EL F> 0 ) and hig her econom ic efficiency cost of borrow ing ( R e> d).3.. R educing financial leverag e for S .C . A L FA S .A . reduced the favorable effect of the debt presence on financial efficiency ra te , w hich w as due to low er w e ig ht ra tio of tota l debt and equity g row th.4.. Total debt increased during N-l and N y ears for S .C . B ETA S .A . resulted in increased financial leverag e that potentiates financial return ahead as the economic ra te of return.The evolution of the relationship betw een g ross economic return ( R ebr) and g ross financial profitability ( R fbr) for S .C . A L FA S .A . is g raphically presented in Fig ure 1 , and for S .C . B ETA S .A . in Fig ure 2 .A naly zing the evolution offinancial leverag e ( Fig ure 3 ) one can see that risk capital i s not placed a t a level too hig h, w hich m ig ht jeopardize the financial autonom y of enterprises.S ome financiers, as M odig l i ani and Fisher a rg ue that i t i s more advantag eous for the company to finance from loans than from equity [ 6 , 170 ] as the cost of borrow ed capital ( debt interest) i s a lw a y s deductible company 's tax , w hile the cost of equity ( preserved benefits and dividends) i s not tax deductible for the com pany . S hareholders tend to fa ll into debt to g et more tax sa ving , in this w a y , "indebted enterprise va lue appears to be hig her than the company that i s not under debt"[ 7 , 36 ] .Financial breakeven returnEstablishing the company 's position in relation to financial return breakeven for financial risk analy s i s i s determined taking into account fix ed costs and fix ed financial costs, meaning interest ex penses. In this s ituation turnover is calculated corresponding to a financial breakeven return or "financial standstill".B reakeven thus determ ined depends on four fundam ental variables [ 10 ] :-three parameters that influence the stability results of operations:*stability of turnover;*costs structure;*firm position in relation to i ts dead point;-financial ex penses level, respective the debt policy practiced by the company .B ased on these values safety indicators or position indicators are estimated, presented in Table 3 .w here: C A ^tic= financial breakeven;C f = fix ed ex penses;C hfin = financial ex pensesC V = variable ex penses; CA = turnover;R mcv = variable ex penses rate marg in.Financial risk deepens econom ic risk ( in addition to repa y ment of loans, interest costs need to be paid), and finally g enerates a pay ment default of the company that can lead to bankruptcy risk [ 11 , 36 ] .Financial leverag e ratio ( C L F)Financial risk assessment and evaluation can be m ade based on financial leverag e factor ( C L F). It ex presses the sensitivity of net income ( R net) to operating results variations ( R exp) and m easures the percentag e increase of net incom e in response to increase w i th one percentag e of results from operations. C a lculation relationship is as follow s:...respective: ...The C L F calculation takes into account only the current result and financial ex penses, only that correlate w i th the operation, w hich reduces net income relationship: R net = ( R ex p - C hfin) * ( ! - /)In these c ircum stances, financial leverag e coefficient g a ins ex pression: d c . \ /. .v i R exp...C L F= R qx PIt notes that the financial leverag e ratio i s directly proportional to financial ex penses w hich increase hig her the value of C L F and therefore increase in financial risk .Financial risk as measured by financial leverag e ra tio meets vary ing deg rees depending on know ing the coefficient values from zero to infinity [ 6 , 170 ] :B ased on profit and loss account of the tw o studied companies w e determine financial risk indicators presented in Table no. 4 .It can be noticed that, based on the data in Table 4 , the com panies have a com fortable s i tuation in term s of financial risk , because financial expenses have insig nificant values, and in N-2 y ear their absence a l low ed to obtain a financial leverag e ra tio equal to 1 , companies' ex posure to financial risk being m inor.A ctual turnover for the tw o com panies w ere above breakeven financial ( o ver critical turnover) in the analy zed period, aspect w hich a l low ed the recording of safety m arg ins, safety spaces and positive efficiency g a ins.Graphical representation of comparative evolution of financial leverag e ratio i s sug g estively show n in Fig ure no. 4 .In the case of S . C . A L FA S .A . the entire period financial risk is minor due to low level of financial costs, the company preferring to use only i ts ow n resources to finance the activity . Poor values of financial leverag e ra tio ( very c lose to 1 ) support the previous sta tements.Greatest financial risk to w hich S .C . B ETA S .A . i s ex posed to i s manifested in financial y ear N, w hen the value ofcoefficient C L F is max imum , respectively 1 ,11047 w hich show s increasing dependence of net result on the operating result, and consequently , increased financial risk due to the g ap betw een the index and results of operations index of financial ex penses ( l R ex p <Ichfin)- How ever, financial risk i s minor, the society proves superior financial perform ance as turnover i s w e l l above the critical turnover ( financial breakeven), rang e safety hovering w ell above the 20 % in the analy zed period.C onclusionsDebt had a positive effect on financial profitability m anifested as a "financial leverag e" ( positive leverag e effect). Ex tremely low level of debt and low er value of financial l iabilities inferior to ow n equity makes companies not ri sk y in term s of financial solvency . 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《利率市场化对商业银行盈利能力的影响研究》范文
《利率市场化对商业银行盈利能力的影响研究》篇一一、引言随着中国金融市场的不断深化和开放,利率市场化成为我国金融改革的重要一环。
利率市场化旨在通过市场供求关系决定利率水平,提高金融市场的效率和竞争力。
对于商业银行而言,利率市场化不仅改变了其传统的盈利模式,也对其盈利能力产生了深远的影响。
本文旨在探讨利率市场化对商业银行盈利能力的影响,以期为商业银行在新的市场环境下寻找盈利增长点提供参考。
二、利率市场化的背景及发展利率市场化是指央行放宽对利率的直接管制,通过市场供求关系决定利率水平。
我国利率市场化的进程始于20世纪90年代,经历了逐步放开贷款利率、扩大存款利率浮动范围等阶段。
随着利率市场化的推进,商业银行的盈利模式和盈利能力受到了较大的挑战。
三、利率市场化对商业银行盈利能力的影响(一)影响商业银行传统业务在利率管制时期,商业银行主要通过存贷利差获取利润。
然而,在利率市场化环境下,存款和贷款利率由市场供求关系决定,导致存贷利差缩小。
这使得商业银行传统业务的盈利能力受到挑战。
(二)促进商业银行创新业务尽管存贷利差的缩小对商业银行的盈利能力造成了一定的压力,但也促使商业银行寻求创新业务。
例如,发展中间业务、资产管理业务、财富管理业务等,这些创新业务为商业银行提供了新的盈利增长点。
(三)影响商业银行的风险管理利率市场化使得利率波动加大,增加了商业银行面临的市场风险。
为了降低风险,商业银行需要加强风险管理,包括建立完善的风险管理机制、提高风险识别和评估能力等。
这有助于商业银行在新的市场环境下保持稳健的经营。
四、应对策略及建议(一)优化资产负债结构在利率市场化环境下,商业银行应优化资产负债结构,降低负债成本,提高资产收益。
例如,通过发展大额存单、同业存单等低成本负债产品,以及加大对企业贷款、个人消费贷款等高收益资产的投放。
(二)加强创新业务发展商业银行应加强创新业务的发展,如中间业务、资产管理业务、财富管理业务等。
外文文献翻译--亚洲国内外银行盈利能力影响因素分析(节选)
外文文献翻译--亚洲国内外银行盈利能力影响因素分析(节选)亚洲地区的国内外银行盈利能力受到许多因素的影响。
本文通过对相关数据的分析,探讨了一些重要的影响因素。
市场规模和竞争程度亚洲银行在大规模市场和激烈竞争环境中运营。
银行的盈利能力通常与市场规模和竞争程度密切相关。
大规模市场通常提供更多的业务机会和潜在客户,但同时也带来更激烈的竞争压力。
利率和利差利率和利差对亚洲银行的盈利能力有重要影响。
利率水平直接影响银行的负债成本和贷款收益。
高利差环境下,银行可以通过收取更高的贷款利率来提高盈利能力。
资本充足率亚洲银行的资本充足率对盈利能力具有显著影响。
较高的资本充足率可以提高银行的信贷能力和稳健性,降低违约风险和资本成本,从而增强盈利能力。
经济环境和政策因素亚洲国内外银行的盈利能力还受到经济环境和政策因素的影响。
经济增长率、通货膨胀率和政府政策的变化都可能对银行的盈利能力产生积极或消极的影响。
风险管理和资产质量良好的风险管理和高质量的资产对银行的盈利能力至关重要。
有效的风险管理可以降低亚洲银行的违约风险,并提高盈利能力。
同时,高质量的资产组合可以增加收入稳定性和减少损失。
技术创新和数字化转型技术创新和数字化转型正在改变亚洲银行的运营方式。
采用新技术和数字化渠道可以提高效率、降低成本,并扩大服务范围,从而有助于提高盈利能力。
以上是亚洲国内外银行盈利能力影响因素分析的一些节选内容。
这些因素相互作用,对银行的盈利能力产生综合影响。
研究这些因素可以帮助银行管理者制定有效的策略,提升盈利能力。
外文翻译---是否杠杆、股利政策及盈利能力会影响公司未来的价值
中文3155字外文文献翻译译文一、外文原文原文:Do Leverage, Dividend Policy and Profitability influence the Future Value of Firm? Evidence from IndiaINTRODUCTIONWith the ushering of economic liberalization in 1992, Indian stock market has undergone several changes over the last decade. These include introduction of new exchanges, massive computerization and electronic limit order book integrating the stock exchanges across the nation, establishing of clearing corporation and subsequent introduction of new derivative products in the market. Perhaps the most important among these changes was the establishment of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in 1992 as the market watchdog. SEBI, since it’s inception has strived in the direction of narrowing the information gap between Indian corporations and investors, enforce better corporate governance practices through guidelines, rules and regulations and through active market for corporate control that has marked a new era in the Indian financial arena. The investors reveled their confidence through their participation in the primary and secondary market. Large number of new companies came to the primary market over 1993-96 and the market capitalization of S&PCNX 500 has increased considerably over 1990s. India has emerged as an emerging economy with largest number of companies listed in its stock markets.Over the last decade corporate governance has received considerable importance in Indian financial market. With the initiation of market for corporate control and activities in the merger and acquisition market, CEOs have assigned tremendous importance for creating value for their firms. Accordingly companies from different sectors (and/or ownership groups) have adopted different strategies to signal theirearning and growth potential over the years and thereby influence their stock prices. With this in the background this paper attempts to analyze the factors that influenced the future value of the companies listed in Indian stock markets and also how the effect of these factor changes over different categories of firms.Background LiteratureThe well-developed and vibrant literature in modern corporate finance has its root in the seminal paper by Franco Modigliani and Merton Miller (1958, 1963),(M-M henceforth). This branch of finance started with the assumption of perfect information and complete markets. It postulates that in a typical neoclassical market with perfect competition, absence of agency costs, transaction and banking costs, the average cost of raising fund for any firm is completely independent of its capital structure. With the same set of assumptions M-M (1963) argued that the value of the firm is unaffected by the dividend policy. However, over time many of these simplified assumptions were relaxed and subsequent research showed capital structure does matter and there could exist optimal dividend policy in the modified M-M framework.Academic literature over the last decade has documented the effect of different strategic factors influencing the firm values for the developed countries. Rappaport (1981, 1987) has used value creation literature for corporate mergers and acquisition and underlined the importance of growth rate, operating profit, income tax rate and fixed capital investment as the major factor influencing the firms’ value. Recently some of the studies concentrated on emerging market to analyze the factors that influenced the firms’value in this market. Ben Naceur and Goaied (2002) investigated value creation process for Tunisian stock exchange using a random probit model with unbalanced panel data. It considered that the managers’ succeeded creating value to its share holders if the market value of the share exceeds the book value of the corporation and vice versa. The authors considered three main determinants of value creation: financial policy, profitability and dividend policy.In the modified M-M framework, literature has shown that firm’s performance depends on the capital structure (or financial policy). Ross (1977) argued thatmore leverage would signal the investors about the improved firm prospect and influence the firm’s value in future. Increase in dividend payout increases the investors’ income at present and signal the expected future cash flow for the corporation. Profitability is undoubtedly one of the major factors determining the firm value. Ben Naceur and Goaied(2002) argued that while profitability and debt have positive effect on the probability of crating future value, the pay-out have reverse effect on the same.India has one of the most developed stock markets in the world with large number of domestic and international players investing in Indian stock market. With maximum number of companies listed in the Indian stock exchanges from different industries and different ownership groups (e.g. business affiliated firms, Indian standalone, foreign standalone) and with the emphasis on corporate governance practices, India has become an important and interesting destination for such studies. Among the available studies in this area, Sahu (2002) used a sample of companies listed in BSE to explain the abnormal stock returns by dividend stability and found no statically significant result. Another study by Tuli and Mittal (2001) used 101 Indian firms and found price earning ratio is significantly influenced by variability of market price and dividend pay out ratio.However, the authors did not find any significant effect of industry and ownership pattern on price to earning ratio.This papers aims at determining the factors influencing the probability of future firm value for Indian corporations after controlling for the industry and time specific effects. In particular this study attempts to answer the following questions:(1)How the probability of future value creation is affected by firm’s profitability, financing pattern and the dividend pay-out policy?(2)Whether the firms belonging to business groups have different effect on probability of value creation?DataThe primary source of the data for this paper is PROWESS database, compiled by Center for Monitoring the Indian Economy (CMIE). This dataset is similar to the COMPUSTAT database in USA. We have selected the firms that are presently included in S&PCNX 500 index. The accounting and stock price data for thesecompanies are extracted for the year 1989-90 to 2001-02 from Prowess dataset for this study.So far we have done the univariate and bivariate analysis in the previous section.To examine the factors effecting the future value creation of the firms listed in the Indian stock exchange we examine the effect of previous year’s leverage, dividend and profitability on the MBVR of the company in a multivariate framework.Variable DescriptionMarket to book value ratio (MBVR) is defined as the ratio of closing price of the equity to book value of equity at the end of the financial year. MBVR is the dependent variable for the OLS regression. For the logit model the dependent variable is a binary series, which takes the value 1 if price to book value ratio is greater than one (i.e., market perceived that future value of the firm is going to increase) and zero otherwise.The other variables of interest include those representing Leverage Policy,Dividend Policy and Profitabilit y that have key bearing on the firms’ future value creation. While the ratio of total amount of long-term debt to total amount of equity capital (LEVERAGE) is included to proxy the leverage policy of the corporation, the ratio of total dividend to total earning of the firm (PAY_OUT) i s included to capture the dividend policy of the same. The profitability of a company, on the other hand, is captured by the ratio of net profit to net worth of the firm, which is also known as return on equity (ROE).To control for the size of the firm we consider total assets (ASSET) of the firm as a proxy variable. To control for the differenced arising due to the firms belonging to different business groups this paper considers different dummy variables. If the firm is Among the large number of listed companies, those included in S&PCNX 500 are often considered for empirical studies for their liquid nature and representative characteristics.Private Indian standalone then the dummy, D_PVT_IND, take the value one and zero otherwise. If, on the other hand, a firm is private foreign standalone then the dummy, D_PVT_FOR, take the value one and otherwise zero. Indian companies differ considerably access the industries. So industry dummies were used to controlfor industry specific heterogeneity. Since 1990, Indian economy has undergone several changes, which have their influence on the corporate valuation. So time dummies were also included to control for the time trend. All the nominal variables are deflated by GDP deflator and expressed at constant price of 1987-88.(Insert Table-1 here)Table 1: Descriptive statistics(MBVR) is ratio of closing price of the equity to book value of equity at the end of thefinancial year. LEVERAGE is the ratio of total amount of long-term debt to total amount ofequity capital.PAY_OUT is the ratio of total dividend to total earning of the firm. Returnon equity (ROE) is the ratio of net profit to net worth of the firm.ASSET total assets of thefirm.Variable All Firms Large Firms Small Firms Group FirmsIndianStandaloneFirmsForeign StandaloneFirmsMBVRLE VERAGE DIVIDEND P AY OFF3.137(5.993)1.726(4.140)0.023(0.029)2.133(3.537)3.057(7.151)0.025(0.028)3.349(6.372)1.441(3.063)0.023(0.029)2.833(5.659)1.973(4.470)0.024(0.030)2.850(5.119)1.247(3.094)0.024(0.026)5.776(8.255)0.319(0.484)0.020(0.023)PROFITABILITY (ROE) 0.138(0.367)0.095(0.449)0.148(0.346)0.133(0.372)0.168(0.283)0.148(0.Table 1 shows the mean values and the standard deviations (in parenthesis) of the variables under consideration under six different cases (namely, all firms, large firms, small firms, group-affiliated firms, Indian standalone firms and foreign standalone firms). The descriptive statistics reported in Table 1 shows that the value of a firm, in terms of MBVR, is higher for the small firms and the foreign standalone firms. Large firms get more leverage than any other category of firms. Profitability of the firm, in terms of ROE, is higher for the Indian standalone companies. Table 2 shows the Pearson correlation coefficient matrix between the variables of interest. It shows that MBVR has significant negative correlation with leverage and size of the firm and positive correlation with dividend policy and profitability of the firm. In the Appendix Figure 1 and 4 show that with the ushering of economic liberalization there is a sharp rise in MBVR and ROE in the year 1992, which have gradually decreased over the years. Figure 2 shows since post liberalization period, the leverage has shown an increasing trend. However, dividend payout policy does not depict any significanttrend over this period.The coefficient of lagged value of leverage (-O.44) and its square term (0.007)imply that as the leverage of the firm increases, the probability of raise in future firm’s values declines at a decreasing rate. The negative influence of leverage on the probability of future value creation was observed across the ownership groups and size. The profitability of the firm (as apparent from the coefficient of ROE) increases the probability of increase in future value creation. Point to note is, this increase is higher for foreign standalone firms as compare to Indian standalone or group-affiliated firms.Unlike the OLS model, the dividend payout did not significantly explain the chance of future value creation. Neither in the pooled model nor in the size and ownership group specific regression the coefficient of payout was significantly different from zero at 10per cent level.ResultThis paper analyzed the accounting factor that influence the probability of increase in future m arket valuation of the firms’ listed in Indian stock exchange after controlling for the time and industry specific effects. The empirical results indicate that the increase in leverage has a negative impact on the chance of future value increase of the firm. It could be because more reliance on credit increases the conflict of interest between shareholders and creditors, giving more control to the managers/promoter, which in turn have a negative influence on the future valuation. Alike Naceur and Goaied (2002), we found previous year’s profitability positive influences future firm’s value, a s increase in profitability might have signaled better quality of size. This finding could be because of the fact that the dividend payment the future per management. However, the pay-off did not significantly influence the probability of future MBVR increase in the pooled model as well as the models across ownership group an formance varied considerably across firms listed in Indian stock exchange.ConclusionThis paper investigates the value creation process of the firms listed in the Indian stock market and their dependence on the accounting variables. It used an unbalancedlogit model and found that the increase in profitability has a positive influence on the probability of creating future value and the relation is stronger for foreign standalone firms as compared to private Indian standalone or business group owned firms. Leverage, one the other hand, has negative impact on the chances of increase in future value of the corporation and this relation was uniform across size and ownership group. It could be because of the potential conflict of interest between the equity holders and the creditors that got reflected in the stock prices. The dividend pay-off policy of the firm, however, could not significantly influence the probability of future value creation of the firms listed in Indian stock market.Source:Saurabh Ghosh,2008“Do Leverage, Dividend Policy and Profitability Influence Future Value of Firm? Evidence from India”.Reserve Bank of India.July.pp.1-3.二、翻译文章译文:是否杠杆、股利政策及盈利能力会影响公司未来的价值?介绍随着1992年以来的经济自由化,印度股市在过去十年经历了很多变化。
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1外文资料翻译译文欧盟国内外银行盈利能力影响因素分析摘要:本文使用银行级数据,通过1995 - 2001年期间国内和外国银行在15个欧盟国家的商业运营情况来了解银行的具体特点和整体银行业环境对影响盈利能力。
结果表明, 国内和外国银行的盈利能力不仅受银行具体特点的影响,也受金融市场结构和宏观经济条件的影响。
除了在集中情况下国内银行利润, 所有的变量都是有重大意义的,尽管它们的影响和关系对国内和国外银行并不总是相同。
1 介绍在过去的几年许多的因素造成了欧盟银行业竞争日益激烈。
最重要的因素之一是针对服务、建立、运行和监督信贷机构的第二个欧洲指令出台,在银行和金融领域放松管制。
这个指令为所有欧洲银行机构在单一欧洲金融市场和提供了平等的竞争条件,因此银行正在先前无法预料的国内外竞争之中。
另外, 最近一些的技术进步对规模经济和范围提供了更多的机会,而采用欧元也加速了行业的变化。
此外,宏观经济政策后大多数国家通货膨胀率和利率逐步降低。
最后,在越来越多的欧洲国家非金融公司被允许提供传统的银行服务,并且在竞争中进一步提高,银行被迫产生新的产品和寻找新客户。
许多银行为了参加欧洲市场和银行业扩大被迫增加规模,通过合并和收购的方式进行了前所未有的整合。
在环境快速变化的情况下,这些变化给在欧盟的银行带来很大的挑战,因此影响了他们的效能。
格林指出,充足的收益是必要的条件让银行保持偿付能力,在一个合适的环境生存、发展和繁荣。
考虑到银行业的健康发展和经济知识增长,影响银行的盈利能力的潜在因素不仅和管理者有关,而且和众多利益相关者如中央银行,银行家协会、政府以及其他金融当局有关。
2 文献综述参考文献与本文可分为三大类。
第一部分是研究集中于银行的盈利能力的决定因素。
第二部分包括研究欧洲银行的利润和成本效率。
第三由研究比较国内外银行。
在下面几个部分中,我们讨论这些类别中的每一个。
3 决定因素和变量选择3.1 因变量本研究使用平均资产回报率(ROAA)来评估银行的性能。
ROAA是把净利润表示为一个百分比的平均总资产。
它显示了每欧元资产获得的利润并指明如何有效的银行的资产去设法创造收益。
平均资产是用来在会计年度中发现发现资产上的任何差异。
Golin(2001)指出,平均资产回报率是衡量盈利能力的关键。
3.2 决定因素和独立变量四个银行特征用作内部决定因素。
这些都是银行的总资产、成本收入比、权益与资产比率和银行的贷款的比率除以客户和短期融资。
此外,六个外部因素是用来检查环境的影响对银行的表现。
4 数据和方法我们的示例是一个平衡面板数据集,由在15个欧盟国家的584家商业银行从1995 - 2001年期间的4088组数据组合而成。
表2和表3分别展示了目前银行的数量所属的国家和所有权和样本特征。
5 实证结果表4报告对银行的平均资本回报率(ROAA)的实证估计。
第一列体现了把所有的银行(584)同时考虑的结果。
第二、三列体现了我们通过银行经营这所属的国家把银行分离出来的结果。
我们定义一个银行是国外还是国内是依靠外国人的股份资本是否超过50%,这个子样本包括332家国内银行和218家外资银行。
在这个阶段,约34个银行被排除在分析,由于我们没有足够的信息来辨别其是国内还是国外。
除了在集中情况下国内银行平均资本回报率,所有的变量都是显著的,尽管它们对国内外银行的平均资本回报率的影响和关系并不总是相同的。
这个模型的解释力对国内银行是更高的(调整R2国内银行等于0.6371,而外资银行等于0.3903),而f统计所有模型的重要性在1%的水平。
这意味着额外的因素可能会影响外国银行的盈利能力。
像威廉姆斯(2003)正确地指出,外资银行运行在一个受两个因素影响的主机市场,分别是他们是属于外国跨国银行和他们的参与银行系统的主机。
由比较高的显着系数的股权资产(EQAS)和成本收入比(COST)显示,在一般情况下,平均资产回报率的主要决定因素是资本实力及费用管理效率。
股权资产与平均资本成本是正相关关系,无论我们考察国内银行还是国外的银行,而且它是国内银行盈利能力是最重要的决定因素。
这一调查结果与以往的调查研究是一致的,资本充足的银行在破产和规模缩减方面面临着较低的成本,因此,它们的融资成本比较低或具有较低的外部资金的需求,促成了较高的盈利能力。
成本收入比(COST)被预期是外资银行盈利能力的最重要的决定因素,是正如预期的那样的,呈现出负相关关系,这些费用的增加会在很大程度上减少在欧盟银行的经营利润。
很多学者也发现了费用管理不善是盈利能力差的主要因素。
因此,在欧盟的商业银行应采取必要的行动,以实现更有效的成本控制,以进一步增加他们的利润。
外国(-0.309)和国内银行(-0.144)之间的系数的差异可能是由于不当的管理操作以及与监测机构存在的距离。
关于流动性,结果是喜忧参半。
客户的净贷款及短期资金比率(LOFUND)在统计上显着,并与国内银行的盈利能力呈正相关,表明银行流动性资产持有量水平和盈利能力水平呈负相关关系,与预料的一样。
对于外资银行来说,变量也很显着,但有一个负号,说明流动性和银行利润的正相关关系,出乎我们的意料,虽然与伯克(1989)和Kosmidou(2006)的研究一致。
无论是国内或国外银行,规模(SIZE)之间的关系和银行的业绩是负的。
负系数表明,在这两种银行中,大银行的收入水平就会低于的利润,研究也发现要么经济规模和范围为较小的银行或金融机构的规模不够大。
范德Vennet(1998)发现的证据表明,在欧盟规模经济效益只有在根据资产小于10亿欧元的最小银行才有效,此后报酬不变和规模不经济的最大银行超过1000欧亿。
6 结语在最近几年中,许多因素加剧了欧盟银行业的竞争,尤其是银行的操作环境的急速变化给银行带来了巨大的挑战。
这是合理的假设去认为所有这些变化都必然会对银行的表现有一定的影响。
格林在2001年指出,银行需要足够的资金以维持偿债能力并在合适的环境中生存。
银行的效率和经济增长之间的关系是有据可查的。
与此同时,银行的破产会对经济产生不利的后果。
因此,认识影响银行的盈利能力的潜在因素是必不可少的,不仅是为了银行经理,也是为了在15个欧盟国家众多的利益相关者,如的中央银行,银行协会,政府和其他金融机构。
从这项研究中得出的结论对于那些经济和银行系统正经历根本性变化的新欧盟国家都是很有意义的。
2外文原文Factors influencing the profitability of domestic and foreign commercial banks in the EuropeanUnionAbstractUsing bank level data this paper examines how bank's specific characteristics and the overall banking environment affect the profitability of commercial domestic and foreign banks operating in the 15 EU countries over the period 1995–2001. The results indicate that profitability of both domestic and foreign banks is affected not only by bank's specific characteristics but also by financial market structure and macroeconomic conditions. All the variables, with the exception of concentration in the case of domestic banks profits, are significant although their impact and relation with profits is not always the same for domestic and foreign banks.Keywords Banks; European Union; Profitability1. IntroductionOver the last years a number of factors have contributed to the growing competition in the European Union (EU) banking sector. One of the most important factors is deregulation, promoted by the Second European Directive on Banking and Financial services, concerning establishment, operation and supervision of credit institutions. This Directive sets out the principles of banking in the Single European financial market and provides equal competitive conditions for all European banking institutions. As a result banks now compete in previously inaccessible domestic and foreign markets. Furthermore, a number of recent technological advances offered more opportunities for economies of scale and scope while the adoption of euro accelerated the changes in the industry. For instance, income generation from foreign exchange transactions has been lost while the pricing of banking products and services has become more transparent, enhancing competition. Furthermore, the macroeconomic policies that were followed in most countries gradually reduced inflation and interest rates. Finally, in more and more European countries non-financial firms were allowed to offer traditional banking services, leading to further increase in competition. Therefore, banks were forced to generate new products and seek new customers. This is reflected in the continued diversification across geographical areas and business lines. Many banks have been forced to increase in size in order to compete in the enlarged European market and the banking industry experienced an unprecedented level of consolidation through mergers andacquisitions.It is reasonable to assume that all these changes posed great challenges to banks in the EU as the environment in which they operated changed rapidly, a fact that consequently had an impact on their performance. As Golin (2001) points out adequate earnings are required in order for banks to maintain solvency, to survive, grow and prosper in a suitable environment. Given the relation between the well-being of the banking sector and the growth of the economy (Rajan and Zingales, 1998, Levine, 1997 and Levine, 1998), knowledge of the underlying factors that influence banks’ profitability is essential not only for the man agers of the banks but for numerous stakeholders such as the Central Banks, Bankers Associations, Governments, and other Financial Authorities. Knowledge of these factors would also be of particular interest to the new EU countries whose economies and banking systems are experiencing fundamental changes during this period.The aim of this paper is to extent earlier work on the determinants of profitability of banks in the EU and examine to what extent the performance of commercial banks operating in EU mark ets is influenced by internal factors (i.e. banks’ specific characteristics) and to what extent by external factors (i.e. macroeconomic and financial market structure) in view of the ongoing process of integration and concentration. Although a growing literature uses efficient frontier approaches to examine the profit and cost efficiency of EU banks (e.g., Altunbas et al., 2001 and Schure et al., 2004), to our best knowledge, there are only few studies that focus on the determinants of profitability while focusing on the EU as a total1 (e.g., Molyneux and Thorton, 1992 and Staikouras and Wood, 2003).Molyneux and Thorton (1992) were the first that examined the determinants of banks profitability operating in 18 European countries over the period 1986–1989. Most recently the European banking sector was examined by Staikouras and Wood (2003) that considered banks from 13 EU countries over the period 1994–1998. The present study attempts to provide additional and more recent evidence on the determinants of banks profitability in the EU. In order to accomplish this task, our paper differs from the earlier mentioned studies in several aspects. First of all, we include more recent years in the analysis by examining the period 1995–2001. Furthermore, we examine more factors by introducing the influence of additional financial market structure variables such as stock market capitalization to GDP, stock market capitalization to assets of deposits money banks and assets of deposits money banks to GDP, not considered in the above studies. Finally, we are the first that distinguish between foreign and domestic banks. During the last years both developed and developing countries around the world have relaxed restrictions on foreign banking and most of them now allow more foreign banks to undertake more banking-related activities in their domestic banking markets, mainly because of the increasingly importance of international trade in goods and financial services. As Goddard et al. (2001) point out since 1989 the number of foreign banks has increased in every banking market in Europe, which now hold a large proportion of banking assets in the UK (53% of banking sector assets in 1999), Belgium (24% of assets in 1999), Portugal (12% of assets in 1999) and France (12% in 1999). Previous studies that distinguish betweendomestic and foreign banks focus mostly on differences on profit and cost efficiencies using frontier approaches (e.g., Berger et al., 2000 and Sathye, 2001) or financial characteristics that differentiate these two groups of banks (e.g., Kosmidou et al., 2006a) and not on whether the internal and external determinants of profitability among domestic and foreign banks are different.The rest of the paper is structured as follows: Section 2 provides a literature review of related studies. Section 3 describes the dependent and independent variables while Section 4 presents the data and methodology used in the study. The empirical results are presented in Section 5. Finally, in Section 6, the concluding remarks are discussed.2. Literature reviewPrior literature related to the present paper can be classified in three broad categories. The first consists of studies that focus on the determinants of banks’ prof itability. The second consists of studies that examine the profit and cost efficiency of European banks. The third consists of studies that compare domestic and foreign banks. In the following sections we discuss each one of these categories.2.1. Studies on the determinants of profitabilityFollowing the early studies of Short (1979) and Bourke (1989) a number of more recent studies have attempted to identify some of the major determinants of banks’ profitability. They consider internal and external factors and examine a single country (e.g., Berger, 1995, Angbazo, 1997, Guru et al., 1999, Ben Naceur, 2003, Mamatzakis and Remoundos, 2003, Kosmidou et al., 2005 and Kosmidou, 2006) or a panel of countries (Molyneux and Thorton, 1992, Demirguc-Kunt and Huizinga, 1999, Abreu and Mendes, 2001, Staikouras and Wood, 2003, Hassan and Bashir, 2003 and Goddard et al., 2004). In the discussion that follows we focus on the studies that examine the EU banking market.2The study of Molyneux and Thorton (1992) is one of the first that examines the determinants of banks profitability in several countries. The results indicate a positive association between the return on equity and the level of interest rates, bank concentration and the government ownership. In a more recent study, Abreu and Mendes (2001) examine Portugal, Spain, France and Germany and find that loan to assets and equity to assets ratios have a positive impact on interest margins and profitability. They also find that operating costs have a positive impact on net interest margins measures but not on profits measures, while the opposite holds for bank's market share. From the macroeconomic variables, inflation is relevant in all cases, while the nominal effective exchange rate does not have an impact on performance. The unemployment rate has a negative sign in all regressions and is significant in the case of profits although not on net interest margins measures. Staikouras and Wood (2003) examine the performance of a sample of banks operating in thirteen EU banking markets. The results indicate that loans to assets ratio and the proportion of loan loss provisions are inversely related to banks’ return on assets, as well as that banks with greater levels of equity are relatively more profitable. The funds gap ratio is also significant and positively related to performance. Furthermore, the authorsfound no evidence to support either the structure–conduct–performance or the efficient hypothesis. Two of the three macroeconomic indicators, the variability of interest rates and the growth of GDP had a negative impact, while the level of interest rates had a positive effect. Goddard et al. (2004) investigate the determinants of profitability in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, for the period 1992–98. They find only weak evidence for any consistent or systematic size–profitability relationship and a positive relationship between capital-assets ratio and profitability. The relationship between the importance of off-balance-sheet business in a bank's portfolio and profitability is positive for the UK, but either neutral or negative elsewhere.2.2. Studies on the profit and cost efficiency of EU banksIn recent years, there has also been an increase of academic studies that focus on the efficiency of financial institutions using frontier analysis. Berger and Humphrey (1997) outline 130 studies, covering 21 countries, multiple time periods and various types of institutions that applied three parametric (i.e. stochastic frontier approach (SFA), distribution free approach (DFA), thick frontier approach (TFA)) and two non-parametric (i.e. data envelopment analysis (DEA), free disposal hull (FDH)) frontier approaches for determining the best-practice frontier against which relative efficiencies are measured.3 The efficiency of a bank is measured relatively to that of the best-practice banks of similar size, with most studies focusing on cost efficiency rather than profit efficiency.4 Some recent studies also consider both cost and profit efficiency (e.g., Berger and Humphrey, 1997 and Berger and Mester, 1997), as well as risk variables (e.g., Berger and DeYoung, 1997, Berg et al., 1992, McAllister and McManus, 1993, Mester, 1996 and Rao, 2005).Although the EU is considered relatively under researched (given its size and importance) there is now a growing strand of literature that examines the efficiency of EU banking institutions. Examples of such studies are Altunbas et al. (2001), Bikker (2002), Maudos et al. (2002), Schure et al. (2004) and Staikouras et al. (2005). The studies of Dietsch and Weil (1998), Cavallo and Rossi (2002), Casu and Molyneux (2003), are also interesting as they focus on most of the main EU banking sectors. Earlier studies, as the ones of Berg et al. (1993), Pastor et al. (1995), Lang and Welzel (1996), Lozano-Vivas (1997), Dietsch and Lozano-Vivas (2000), focus mostly on sub-sets of selected markets or individual countries such as the nordic countries, France, Germany and Spain among others.2.3. Studies on foreign versus domestic banksOther studies have employed similar techniques to compare the efficiency of foreign and domestic banks. Hasan and Hunter (1996), Mahajan et al. (1996), and Chang et al. (1998) conclude that foreign banks in the US are less cost efficient than domestic banks, while Seth (1992) and Nolle (1995), find that foreign-owned banks are not as profitable as domestically owned banks. Similar results were obtained in studies which examined the Australian market. Using DEA Sathye (2001) found foreign banks to be less efficient than domestic, while comparable results were obtained by Avkiran (1997).Fewer studies have examined European markets. After estimating separate frontiers for foreign and domestic banks in Spain, Hasan and Lozano-Vivas (1998) find that foreign banks are about equal as profit efficiency as domestic banks. Berger et al. (2000) estimate cost and profit frontiers to compare the efficiency of banks in France, Germany, Spain, UK and US. For the US case, the results showed that domestic banks are on average less cost efficient than foreign banks. For the EU countries, cost efficiency and profit efficiency were found higher for domestic banks than foreign banks in three cases (i.e. France, Germany, UK), but the difference was not found to be statistically significant. Using a multicriteria decision aid methodology, Kosmidou et al. (2004) find that domestic banks exhibit higher overall performance compared to foreign banks operating in the UK. Kosmidou et al. (2006a) examine how foreign banks differ from domestic banks in the UK and find that the later are characterized by higher return on equity, net interest revenue to total earning assets, and loans to customer and short term funding.Studies that compare the performance of foreign and domestic banks in developing countries yield in general different results. Demirguc-Kunt and Huizinga (1999) as well as Claessens et al. (2001) find foreign banks to be disadvantaged compared to domestic banks in developed countries although not in less developed countries. Finally, in a more recent study, Fries and Taci (2005) examine the cost efficiency in 15 post-communist countries. The results indicate that privatized banks with majority foreign ownership are the most cost efficient ones and those with domestic ownership are the least, though both being more efficient than state-owned banks.3. Determinants and variable selection3.1. Dependent variableThis study uses return on average assets (ROAA) to evaluate bank's performance. ROAA is the net profits expressed as a percentage of average total assets. It shows the profits earned per euro of assets and indicates how effectively the bank's assets are being managed to generate revenues. Average assets are being used in order to capture any differences that occurred in assets during the fiscal year. As Golin (2001) points out, return on average assets is the key measure of profitability.3.2. Determinants and independent variablesFour bank characteristics are used as internal determinants of performance. These are the bank's total assets, the cost to income ratio, the ratio of equity to assets and the ratio of bank's loans divided by customers and short term funding. In addition, six external determinants are used to examine the impact of environment on bank's performance (Table 1).Table 1. Variables descriptionVariables DescriptionDependentROAA The return on average total assets of the bankVariables Description IndependentBanks characteristics (internals factors)EQAS This is a measure of capital adequacy, calculated as equity to total assets. High capital-asset ratios are assumed to be indicators of low leverage and therefore lower riskCOST This is the cost to income ratio. It provides information on the efficiency of the management regarding expenses relative to the revenues it generates. Higher ratios imply a less efficient managementLOFUND This is a measure of liquidity calculated as loans to customers and short term funding. Higher figures denote lower liquiditySIZE The accounting va lue of the bank's total assets (in €)Macroeconomic and financial structure (external factors)INF The annual inflation rateGDPGGR The real gross domestic product (GDP) growthCONC The C5 concentration measure calculated by dividing the assets of the five largest banks with the assets of all banks operating in the countryASSGDP The ratio total assets of the deposit money banks divided by the GDP (ASSGDP). It reflects the overall level of development of the banking sector and measures the importance of bank financing in the economy (in constant US$ 1995)MACPASS The ratio stock market capitalization to total assets of the deposit money banks.a This variable serves as a proxy of financial development as well as a measure of the size of financial market and the relationship between bank and market financing (in constant US$ 1995)MACGDP The ratio stock market capitalization to GDP. It measures the overall level of development of the market and its importance in financing the economy (in constant US$ 1995)Notes: the data for the calculation of internal factors and CONC were obtained from Bankscope Database. The data for the external factors were obtained from Euromonitor International Database which uses sources such as International Monetary Fund's (IMF) International Financial Statistics (IFS), World Economic Outlook/UN/National Statistics and World Bank.The ratio of equity to assets (EQAS) is used as a measure of capital strength. Generally speaking, banks with high capital-asset ratios are considered relatively safer in the event of loss or liquidation. Therefore, the conventional risk–return hypothesis would imply a negative relationship between equity to assets ratio and bank performance. However, the lower risk increases banks creditworthiness and consequently reduces the cost of funding. At the same time, banks with higher equity to assets ratio will normally have lower needs of external funding and therefore higher profitability.Another basic policy of commercial banks refers to their liquidity management and specifically the process of managing assets and cash flow to maintain the ability to meet current liabilities as they come due. Without the required liquidity and funding to meet obligations, a bank may quickly fail, or at least be technically insolvent. The ratio of net loans to customers and short term funding (LOFUND) is used to measure the relationship between liquidity management and performance. This ratio shows the relationship between comparatively illiquid assets (i.e. loans) and comparatively stable funding sources (i.e. deposits and other short term funding). Therefore, the lower the value of this ratio, the more liquid the bank is. Since liquid assets are associated with lower rates of return a positive relationship is expected between this variable and performance.The cost to income ratio (COST) is used to measure the impact of efficiency in expenses management on banks performance. This ratio shows the costs of running the bank, the major element of which is staff salaries and benefits, and is expected to have a negative relationship with bank's performance.Bank's size (SIZE) is considered an important determinant of its performance. The reason is that large size may result in economies of scale that will reduce the cost of gathering and processing information (Boyd and Runkle, 1993). As in most studies in banking, we use total assets of the bank as a proxy for its size to account for size related economies or diseconomies of scale.Turning to the external determinants, two sets of variables have been considered in this study, indicating macroeconomic conditions and financial structure characteristics. The two macroeconomic variables used are gross domestic product growth (GDPGR) and inflation (INF).GDP is among the most commonly used macroeconomic indicators and it is a measure of total economic activity within an economy. The real GDP growth, used in this study, is expected to have a positive impact on bank's performance according to the well-documented literature on the association between economic growth and financial sector performance.The relationship between inflation and banks performance depends on whether the inflation is anticipated or unanticipated (Perry, 1992). In the first case (i.e. anticipated inflation) banks can timely adjust interest rates, which consequently results in revenues that increase faster than costs, with a positive impact on profitability. In the second case (i.e. unanticipated inflation) banks may be slow in adjusting their interest rates resulting in a faster increase of bank costs than banks revenues. This will consequently have a negative impact on bank profitability.We finally examine how the performance of banks is related to the relative development of the banking industry and the stock market using the ratios stock market capitalization to GDP (MACGDP), stock market capitalization to total assets of deposit money banks (MACPASS), total assets of deposit money banks to GDP (ASSGDP) and banking industry concentration (CONC). MACPASS reflects the complementarity or substitutability between bank and stock market financing, while ASSGDP and MACGDP measure the overall level of development of the banking sector and the stock market, respectively as well as their importance in financing theeconomy. Concentration is the proportion of an industry's total assets controlled by its largest firms. According to the structure-conduct performance (SCP) hypothesis, banks in highly concentrated markets tend to collude and therefore earn monopoly profits (Short, 1979, Gilbert, 1984 and Molyneux et al., 1996). Collusion may result in higher rates being charged on loans, less interest rates being paid on deposits and so on (Goddard et al., 2001). CONC is calculated as the total assets held by the five largest commercial banks in the country divided by the total assets of all commercial banks in the country.4. Data and methodology4.1. DataOur sample is a balanced panel dataset of 584 commercial banks operating in the 15 EU countries over the period 1995–2001 consisting of 4088 observations.5Table 2 and Table 3 present the number of banks by country and ownership and the sample characteristics, respectively.Table 2. Banks in sample by country and ownershipCountry DomesticbanksForeignbanksaNot available or completeinformation for ownership inBankscopeTotalnumber ofbanksAustria 13 7 0 20 Belgium 5 15 0 20 Denmark 31 2 9 42 Finland 2 0 1 3France 90 40 14 144 Germany 57 26 5 88 Greece 6 0 0 6Ireland 3 8 0 11Italy 49 4 1 54 Luxembourg 3 54 0 57The Netherlands 10 13 1 24 Portugal 7 4 0 11Spain 28 11 3 42 Sweden 5 0 0 5UK 23 34 0 57Total 15 EU 332 218 34 584a We define a bank to be foreign when foreigners own more than 50% of its share capital.Table 3. Sample characteristics: independent variables means (and S.D.)EQA S COSTLOFUNDSIZEASSGDPMACPASSMACGDPINFGDPGRCONCS ND GDP ASS GDP GR CAustria 8.5649(6.1501)63.9675(16.0473)56.2402(27.6708)2174.0293(4697.8790)0.369(0.0300)0.4173(0.0607)0.1524(0.0130)1.6986(0.7312)2.2857(1.0548)88.7943(1.6549)Belgium 8.4901(12.4237)65.9792(31.2047)40.4446(28.8199)7102.865(23011.8401)0.7563(0.2460)0.1040(0.0530)0.0661(0.0195)1.7500(0.5836)2.4000(1.1832)91.5886(3.8120)Denmark 10.9835(4.0547)69.0187(16.4308)68.6064(21.9184)3647.0282(18890.2384)0.3874(0.0458)1.3548(0.2032)0.5309(0.1207)2.2871(0.3177)2.5286(0.4949)86.8100(2.1805)Finland 5.2438(1.1279)65.2871(11.9674)63.1967(13.0329)11079.5762(8659.0861)0.1889(0.0485)8.1501(7.0367)1.3410(0.8871)1.4886(0.8262)4.2571(1.6910)99.1886(0.2073)France 9.5674(11.0528)70.0557(45.3486)70.7802(69.8005)12622.7131(59381.6366)0.3969(0.0743)1.9497(1.0919)0.6991(0.2899)1.3600(0.5316)2.5571(1.0377)60.5285(2.8459)Germany 9.0886(10.8851)65.7206(23.7526)64.273(41.0126)2734.8172(5428.5443)0.2974(0.0522)1.6206(0.6039)0.4788(0.1680)1.5686(0.5995)1.6571(0.6884)77.2729(5.4576)Greece 8.764(6.8035)66.0269(16.1258)48.500(13.1278)15401.6024(13779.4125)0.1146(0.0201)5.6998(4.3633)0.6713(0.5104)5.2257(2.3141)3.3429(0.7442)87.3471(5.4860)Ireland 8.3094(5.2682)33.1019(23.6464)58.4917(27.4379)12959.7545(21601.9533)1.216(0.3663)0.5604(0.1407)0.6529(0.1567)2.8800(1.5354)9.3286(1.6807)77.9629(3.5921)Italy 8.7328(6.4068)76.5104(30.1354)78.5084(53.0946)10373.1082(23514.5038)0.1184(0.0384)4.5216(3.0910)0.4266(0.1871)2.8857(1.1905)2.0571(0.6522)55.5066(3.9818)Luxembourg 5.4107(5.8141)49.6299(24.3863)24.6536(19.6574)5077.4035(7990.2227)18.3469(8.3414)0.1161(0.0549)1.7163(0.2233)1.7800(0.7828)5.4714(2.6223)34.0235(8.3610)The 7.77157.1187.66235287.940.5352.6122 1.3146 2.47 3.2590.6。