Using a sample of 21,030 US firm-year observations that represents more than 3000 individual
firms over the 1998–2012 period, we investigate the relationship between Corporate …

This paper benefits from various risk- and non-risk-based regulatory capital ratios and
examines their impact on bank risk and performance in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) …

We report new evidence on the bank and institutional determinants of Islamic bank capital
ratios in 28 countries between 1999 and 2013. Overall, we find that smaller, more profitable, …

Using a sample of 1992 banks from 39 OECD countries during the 1999–2013 period, we
examine whether the imposition of higher capital ratios is effective in reducing risk and …

Using a sample of banks operating in 24 countries, we provide robust evidence that stronger
creditor rights are associated with higher capital adequacy ratios for conventional banks but …

While recent surveys have taken a special interest in culture to explain the failure of existing
regulation, empirical evidence on the role of culture in influencing the bank capital-…

We investigate whether and how political systems affect the financial soundness of conventional
and Islamic banks. Using factors extracted from principal component analysis, we find …

Using data from 8615 banks (including 123 Islamic banks) in 124 developed and developing
countries for the period between 2006 and 2012, we examine the financial characteristics …

We show that higher capital and liquidity ratios increase the efficiency of conventional and
Islamic banks. Using conditional quantile regressions, we further show that the effect is …

Where the performance of Islamic equity funds (IEFs) comes from? Is it from market movements,
asset allocation policy or from active portfolio management? Our study is the first to …