Professional paper
Bank Profitability in Conditions of Economic Crisis – The Analysis of Banks in Croatia
DUBRAVKA KRIVAČIĆ
orcid.org/0000-0002-2830-655X
; KARLOVAC UNIVERSITY OF APPLED SCIENCES
SANJA SMEDEREVAC
; KARLOVAC UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
PETRA VUJNOVIĆ
; VELEUČILIŠTE VERN
Abstract
In few recent years global financial crisis, and economic crisis after it, affected on slowing down of bank business activities and on decreasing their earnings. This cognition is a basis for conducting bank profitability research in Croatia, considering the fact that crisis in Croatia took place with certain time lag in comparison with member states of the European Union. The starting point is the fact that banks in Croatia, opposite to perception of part of public, are not immune on turbulences
in the environment and that they feel consequences of economic crisis. The object of this paper is bank profitability in Croatia during few recent years and the aim is to investigate relevant influence factors on bank profitability in domestic environment. Based on the information from financial statements and using chosen indicators, the purpose of this research is to objectively explain bank profitability as
dependent variable.
Keywords
financial and economic crisis; bank profitability; banks in Croatia
Hrčak ID:
87826
URI
Publication date:
20.8.2012.
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