The current study examines the determinants of profitability of Indian commercial banks. The analysis is conducted over a period of 10 years in which the Indian banking sector has gone under different changes such as demonetization and issues related to banking sector sustainability and banking sector frauds. The analysis is based on balanced panel data over a period ranging from 2008 to 2017 for 69 commercial Indian banks. Profitability of Indian banks is measured by two proxies, namely, return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE), whereas bank size, assets quality, capital adequacy, liquidity, operating efficiency, deposits, leverage, assets management, and the number of branches are used as bank‐specific factors. Further, a set of macroeconomic determinants such as gross domestic product, inflation rate, interest rate, exchange rate, financial crisis, and demonetization are used as independent variables. Stationary test along with pooled, fixed, random effect models and panel correction standard error are used in this study. The results revealed that bank size, the number of branches, assets management ratio, operational efficiency, and leverage ratio are the most important bank‐specific determinants that affect the profitability of Indian commercial banks as measured by ROA. Furthermore, among the bank‐specific determinants, the results revealed that bank size, assets management ratio, assets quality ratio, and liquidity ratio are found to have a significant positive impact on ROE. With regard to the macroeconomic determinants, the results revealed that the inflation rate, exchange rate, the interest rate, and demonization are found to have a significant impact on ROA. However, in the case of ROE, the results show that all macroeconomic determinants except demonization have a significant impact on the bank's profitability as measured by ROE.

This study aims at finding out the determinants of Indian commercial banks profitability. Profitability of Indian banks is measured by three important variables namely, Return on Assets (ROA), Return on Equity (ROE) and Net Interest Margin (NIM). The study also uses a set of independent variables such as bank-specific factors which include bank size, assets quality, capital adequacy, liquidity, operating efficiency, deposits, leverage, assets management and the number of branches. Pooled, fixed and random effects models and Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) are built on panel data of 10 years for more than 60 commercial banks of India.The study also takes into account Gross Domestic Product (GDP), inflation rate, interest rate and exchange rate as macroeconomic determinants. The results of the study show that all bank-specific factors, except the number of branches, exhibited significant impacts on profitability as measured by NIM. The findings also show that all macroeconomic determinants used in the study are found to be significant with negative impacts on Indian commercial banks profitability. Furthermore, the results ABOUT THE AUTHORSEissa A. Al-Homaidi is currently a Ph.D. scholar in the Commerce Department, Aligarh Muslim University, India. His research interests include financial reporting, financial performance, disclosure, corporate governance and demonetization.Mosab I. Tabash is currently working as an

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The growth of Indian companies in recent years has led to a change in the nature of the economy which attracted outsider investors from developed countries who demanded robust corporate governance practices from Indian companies which made regulators and competitors gave a great effort to restructure corporate governance. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the effect of corporate governance practices on firms' performance, with a special reference to the Indian tourism sector. The study uses a panel dataset of 39 hotels listed on Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) for the period from 2013/2014 to 2015/2016. The ordinary least square regression model is run for estimating the results. Findings show that board directors' size and audit committee's size negatively impact the performance of Indian hotels, while board directors' composition and diligence, the audit committee's composition and diligence, and foreign ownership positively affect the performance of Indian hotels measured by accounting proxies. Results also reveal that board directors' size, audit committee's size, and foreign ownership positively impact the Indian hotels' performance measured by marketing proxies, whereas board directors' composition; board directors' diligence; audit committee's composition; and audit committee's diligence have a negative impact on the performance of Indian hotels.

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The main aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of liquidity on the profitability of pharmaceutical companies listed on Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). Data are extracted from ProwessIQ database. The analysis is done using a balanced panel data of 82 pharmaceutical companies for the period of 10 years from 2008 to 2017. Findings reveal that current liquidity ratio and quick ratio have a positive and significant impact on the profitability of pharmaceutical companies measured by return on assets, while control variables leverage, firms' size, and age have a negative impact on the profitability of pharmaceutical companies. The study used recent literature to explore the gap in the existing literature. This study will be useful for regulators, finance managers and other people concerned about liquidity in order to understand its importance. This study is considered one of the pioneering studies that examines the impact of liquidity in the financial performance of Indian pharmaceutical companies. It is considered a battery for further research in this area.

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