author = { Demirgüç-Kunt, Aslı AND Huizinga, Harry },

title = { Financial Structure and Bank Profitability },

publisher = {},

keywords = { bank ratings , banking regulation , capital assets , competition policy , developing countries , financial development , financial systems , high interest rates , income , income groups , income statements , industrialized societies , inflation , interest expense , interest income , interest margin , interest rate , interest rates , international banking , investments , lending rates , loan defaults , low interest , market capitalization , market-based instruments , monetary economics , net interest margin , operating costs , overhead costs , performance indicators , political economy , private sector , profitability , regression analysis , risk management , savings , savings behavior , stock market , stock markets , taxation , trading arrangements , transactions , wages , GDP , GDP per capita , accounting , assets , assets of deposit money , assets of deposit money banks , balance sheet , balance sheets , bank assets , bank lending , bank performance , bank profits , banking sector , banking sector development , banking system , bankruptcy , banks , book value , borrowing , capital adequacy , capitalization , central bank , central bank assets , commercial bank , contract enforcement , corporate finance , corporate managers , country data , credit risk , creditor rights , deposit interest , deposit rates , deposits , developed countries , earning assets , earning power , economic development , economic growth , economists , empirical evidence , financial dependence , financial intermediaries , financial regulation , financial sector , financial structure , financial structures , financial system , foreign banks },

year = {2000},

abstract = {Germany},

abstract = {Japan},

abstract = {UNITED STATES},

abstract = {United Kingdom},

booktitle = {Policy Research Working Paper ; No. 2430},

address = { World Bank, Washington, DC },