An Investigation of the Effects of Financial Incentives on the Profitability of the Selected Stock Exchange Banks

Banks are the beating heart of financial activities, which facilitate trade and commerce and flourish markets, and enhance economic growth and prosperity by organizing and directing receipts and payments. Their situation inserts a significant effect on other economic sectors of the society. Therefore, the effect of financial incentives, relationships of banks and their innovation with the optimal allocation of financial resources lead to economic growth and development. In this way more depositors become attracted to banks and banking facilities increase by the competitive market and increased creativity of banks in using various applicants.    This study is intended to investigate the relationship between financial incentives in terms of government expenditure and taxes, special banking variables and innovations in order to increase profitability in selected listed banks during 2013 to 2019. The model is estimated through ARDL PANEL method. According to the estimation of the profitability model of selected banks in this research, the researchers found out that government expenditure, as an indicator of financial incentives, has a positive effect on the profitability of selected listed banks. The other financial incentive, the tax rate, has a significant negative effect on the profitability of listed banks. Furthermore, the results of model estimation showed that the effect of banking competition, capital adequacy index and innovation index, derived from the transactions made by Internet banking, effect profitability positively. However, the effect of credit risk variable on banks' profitability index is significantly negative.