1st Edition
Bank Profitability and Interest Rates An Endogenous Money Theory Perspective
Preface by Roberto Ciccone
Introduction
1 A functional analysis of the banking industry
2 Literature review on the relationship between interest rate, bank profitability and the general profit rate
3 A new interpretation of the relationship between the interest rate and the profitability of the banking industry
4 Distributive insights
Conclusions
Appendix A. The best methodology for calculating the income of the banking sectors
Appendix B. From the originate-to-hold to the originate-to-distribute
References
Biography
Riccardo Zolea is currently a junior assistant professor (RTDA) in political economy at the Department of Law at the University of Naples Federico II. He earned his PhD in Economics from Roma Tre University in 2023. He won the Paolo Leon Thesis Prize 2020, the Pierangelo Garegnani (PhD) Thesis Prize 2023 and the STOREP 2023 Award. He has published papers in Review of Political Economy, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Italian Economic Journal, and International Journal of Political Economy; chapters in Elgar books; encyclopaedia entries and some 20 other articles in Italian economic journals (Moneta e Credito, Economia e Politica, Tigor and Menabò di Etica ed Economia).
