Determinants of Iranian bank profitability

Banks are the most important tool for preparing and supplying money in each country. In recent years, by institution of the new private banks and privatization of the governmental banks, banking competition has become very complex. This paper performs an empirical investigation to study the effects...

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Main Authors: Hassan Ghodrati, Mohammad Ghasemi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Growing Science 2014-04-01
Series:Management Science Letters
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Online Access:http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol4/msl_2014_49.pdf
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description Banks are the most important tool for preparing and supplying money in each country. In recent years, by institution of the new private banks and privatization of the governmental banks, banking competition has become very complex. This paper performs an empirical investigation to study the effects of different factors on return on assets and return on equities on 18 selected Iranian firms over the period 2002-2011. Using different regression models, the study studies the effects of total assets, debt ratio, etc. on return of assets (ROA) and return on equities (ROE) on selected eighteen Iranian banks as statistical community. The study considers total assets, ownership ratio, deposits to assets ratio, and loans to assets ratio as independent variables, and ROE and ROA as dependent variables. The results indicate that the private banks returns were better than governmental banks and the commercial banks’ returns were better than special banks. There is a reverse relationship between logarithm of total assets and ownership ratio with profitability based on return of assets.
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spelling doaj-art-f5832978bb9c42c8a13fc076b5dbaec42025-08-20T03:25:50ZengGrowing ScienceManagement Science Letters1923-29341923-93432014-04-014475976410.5267/j.msl.2014.2.011Determinants of Iranian bank profitabilityHassan GhodratiMohammad Ghasemi Banks are the most important tool for preparing and supplying money in each country. In recent years, by institution of the new private banks and privatization of the governmental banks, banking competition has become very complex. This paper performs an empirical investigation to study the effects of different factors on return on assets and return on equities on 18 selected Iranian firms over the period 2002-2011. Using different regression models, the study studies the effects of total assets, debt ratio, etc. on return of assets (ROA) and return on equities (ROE) on selected eighteen Iranian banks as statistical community. The study considers total assets, ownership ratio, deposits to assets ratio, and loans to assets ratio as independent variables, and ROE and ROA as dependent variables. The results indicate that the private banks returns were better than governmental banks and the commercial banks’ returns were better than special banks. There is a reverse relationship between logarithm of total assets and ownership ratio with profitability based on return of assets.http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol4/msl_2014_49.pdfReturn of AssetsReturn of EquityProfitabilityIranian Banks
spellingShingle Hassan Ghodrati
Mohammad Ghasemi
Determinants of Iranian bank profitability
Management Science Letters
Return of Assets
Return of Equity
Profitability
Iranian Banks
title Determinants of Iranian bank profitability
title_full Determinants of Iranian bank profitability
title_fullStr Determinants of Iranian bank profitability
title_full_unstemmed Determinants of Iranian bank profitability
title_short Determinants of Iranian bank profitability
title_sort determinants of iranian bank profitability
topic Return of Assets
Return of Equity
Profitability
Iranian Banks
url http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol4/msl_2014_49.pdf
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