Evaluating financial performance of some Arab banks : a static panel data approach (2012-2019)‎

Abstract EN

This study examines the financial performance of commercial banks in some Arab countries during the period 2012-2019.

For this purpose, Return on assets was taken as indicator of the banks' financial performance.

On the other hand, the factors affecting the performance of banks were Loans to deposits ratio, Deposits to total assets, Total debt to total assets and Retained earnings to total assets.

A random effect model of Panel Data used to analyse the data.

Therefore, the study results revealed that Deposits to total assets, Total debt to total assets, and Retained earnings to total assets are among the independent factors that have a statistically significant effect on commercial banks' financial performance for the Arab banks in this study.