RT info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper T1 Country Creditor Rights, Information Sharing and Commercial Banks Profitability Persistence across the world A1 Amor Tapia, Borja A1 Tascón Fernández, María Teresa A1 Fanjul Suárez, José Luis A2 Economia Financiera y Contabilidad K1 Contabilidad K1 Economía K1 Finanzas K1 Return on equity (ROE) K1 Commercial banks K1 Creditor rights K1 Information sharing K1 Predictive ability of accounting AB [EN] We analyze the persistence of commercial banks’ profitability (Return on Equity, ROE) in different levels of creditor rights and an aggregate score of information sharing in terms of credit bureaus. After controlling for bank size and some macroeconomicvariables, the results indicate that permanent profitability tend to disappear while profitability persistence is higher when creditors are well protected. Furthermore, the presence of a credit bureau (public or private) increases the persistence of ROE, but higher levels of information sharing foster competition and erode future profitability. LK https://hdl.handle.net/10612/19608 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10612/19608 DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León RD 21-may-2024