The paper aims to empirically assess the threshold effect in the large shareholders (LS) and bank performance relationship. We used a sample of MENA banks during the period 2004-2017. To get benefit from a comparative regional analysis, the whole sample was divided into two sub-samples, banks in...

In this paper, we investigate the empirical relation between corporate governance and stock market liquidity of the French firms. Based on a cross-sectional analysis, our study of the empirical relation between the corporate governance and the stock liquidity was realized on 155 French companies...

Background: The objective of this paper is threefold. First, we test the most important factors that determine the level of non-interest income for Tunisian banks. Second, we study the impact of non-interest income on banks' profitability measured by both return on assets (ROA) and return on...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the determinants of the non-interest income for the Tunisian context by the use of data of 10 Tunisian deposit banks. Our sample is observed during the period 1998-2009. Using panel data estimation; our findings reveal that the information and communication...

The aim of this paper is to empirically analyze the effect of financial constraint, information asymetry on the firm investment. On the basis of a data relating to 394 Tunisian firms observed over the period 2001-2008 and by adopting the panel data method, our findings show that the effect of...

The aim of this study is to investigate the performance of the Tunisian banking sector following the liberalization of its financial sector. To this end, we collected annual frequency data from nine banks for the period 1980-2009. By using Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR), our estimations...

In this paper, we investigate whether bank competition increases risk taking for the case of the Tunisian banks. Our data set covers nine Tunisian banks observed during the period from1980 to 2009 and we conducted an econometric model based on panel data estimations. The econometric results...

This paper aims to investigate the main determinants of Tunisian bank stability. To achieve this goal; we have used a dataset of ten (10) Tunisian banks during the period 1990-2015. These banks are the most dynamic and the most involved in the financing of the economy. The econometric strategy...