Determinants of bank profitability in India: Applications of count data models

Title

Determinants of bank profitability in India: Applications of count data models

Creator

Faniband M.

Description

This paper employs count data models, namely Poisson and negative binomial regression to investigate whether macroeconomic factors increase or decrease the count of number of 18 Indian public sector banks in losses. The analysis is based on quarterly data from Q3 2009 to Q4 2019. This paper also considers one and two lagged macroeconomic factors. The results provide a new perspective for understanding the determinants of bank profitability. The contemporary, one and two lagged gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate and inflation increase the count of number of banks in losses. Further, the count of number of banks in losses surges with increase in contemporary and one lagged index of industrial production (IIP). However, one and two lagged exchange rates are significant to shrink the count of number of banks in losses. This study enables banks and policy makers to deliberate on the macroeconomic determinants considered for this study. 2020 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

Source

International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, Vol-13, No. 6, pp. 531-544.

Date

2020-01-01

Publisher

Inderscience Publishers

Subject

Bank profitability; Count data models; Exchange rates; GDPs; Gross domestic products; IIP; Index of industrial production; India; Inflation; Macroeconomic factors; Negative binomial regression; Poisson regression

Coverage

Faniband M., Department of Commerce, Christ (Deemed to Be University), Bengaluru, 560029, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 17520479

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMEF.2020.112121

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