Non-Performing Loans and Banking Profitability
Keywords:
non-performing loans , bank profitability , Tunisian banksAbstract
Aim: This article aimed to determine the effect of macroeconomic and specific variables on the ratio of non-performing loans, and study the recursive direction of bank profitability to NPLs in Tunisian banks.
Methodology: To formalise this phenomenon, the author proposed a panel data model that covers a sample of ten listed Tunisian banks over a period from 2007 to 2015.
Findings: The empirical results indicate the determining power of bank profitability measured by asset profitability, solvency ratio, credit growth rate, provision-based debt coverage rate, bank size, inflation and unemployment.
Implications: The effect of these variables veered between the preservative and destructive aspects of the quality of bank assets.
Originality/value: This study enabled not only to identify the explanatory factors of this phenomenon, but also to verify the existence of a simultaneous relation between NPLs and bank profitability.
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