The aim of this paper is to examine whether Islamic finance could be an alternative to the traditional financial system and could guarantee stability in times of crisis. To this end, 78 Islamic banks in 12 countries have been studied over the 2004–2013 period. A series of bank-specific and...

The reasons for the strong rise in the securitization phenomenon up until the start of the “subprime crisis” need to be analysed. According to many authors, they mainly stem from its offering the possibility of generating fixed yield securities with the highest rating and a low risk premium,...

El proceso de venta del Banco de Valencia gestionado por el FROB duró 10 días. La venta se adjudicó a CaixaBank por un euro después de recibir 5.500 millones de fondos públicos. El informe de Oliver Wyman de 2012 motivó dicha reanudación. En él se estimaban unas necesidades de 1.846...

La financiación es un factor clave para el emprendimiento, especialmente en periodos de crisis, donde la restricción financiera dificulta más el crédito para nuevos proyectos empresariales de pequeñas y medianas empresas. Las Sociedades de Garantía Recíproca facilitan con su aval el...

The present study has been framed to analyze relationship between customer value perception and their technology adoption behaviour with reference to banking customers in India. Being primary in nature by employing multistage stratified sampling approach, the study has included a sample of 1201...

Entrepreneurial competencies are capabilities that the business mind people possess to create a new business idea or improve the existing one. Though the direct effect of entrepreneurs' competence on the performance of MSMEs was relatively researched, its mediating effect was not studied well....

Non-financial information and its contribution to the achievement of each Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) are assuming great relevance in the business world, in which it is not enough to be economically sustainable without also being sustainable from ethical, environmental, and social points...

This study considers factors affecting to audit performance by risk-based approach (RBA) as well as audit quality in Vietnam. In addition, the study also examines the relationship between RBA and quality of independent audit firms. A descriptive survey research was adopted using both...

Moral hazard in an organization occurs when people make decisions and take a high risk for their own benefit, given that they would not have to bear all the negative ensuing consequences should they occur. This risk transferred to third parties is generally due to the catalysts that foster this...