“…Moreover, to date, empirical research has concentrated on a specific country, mainly the banking system of the USA (Berger, 1995;Teixeira et al, 2020) and the banking systems in other developed countries such as the UK (Valverde and Fern andez, 2007), Finland (Huhtilainen, 2020) and Italy (Barra and Zotti, 2019). Fewer studies have looked at bank performance in developing economies such as China (Lee and Lee, 2019;Liu et al, 2019), India (Vidyarthi, 2019), Pakistan (Ali and Puah, 2019;, Ghana (Duho et al, 2020) and Malaysia (Ibrahim, 2020;Indrawan and Rahman, 2020). Because of different model specifications and stages of economic development of the countries concerned, there is wide variation in the results, including attributed causality, among these studies.…”