Open AccessDeterminants of Bank Performance in a Developing Country: Evidence From Morocco
Author(s) -
El Mehdi Ferrouhi
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
organizations and markets in emerging economies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.195
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2345-0037
pISSN - 2029-4581
DOI - 10.15388/omee.2017.8.1.14201
Subject(s) - market liquidity , cointegration , term (time) , economics , monetary economics , variables , financial system , business , econometrics , statistics , mathematics , physics , quantum mechanics
This paper aims to define long-term determinants of Moroccan commercial banks performance, for the period 2005-2015, using the Johansen cointegration test. For this purpose, we use bank performance ratios (ROA, ROE and NIM) as dependent variables, and deposits, liquidity ratios, bank-specific and macroeconomic variables as explicative variables. Results obtained show that long-term performance of Moroccan commercial banks depends on deposits, short-term, long-term and funding liquidity, the size of the bank and its square, internal and external funding, deposits interest rates and foreign direct investments. These results show the significance of bank-specific variables as long-term determinants of the performance of Moroccan commercial banks.