Member Central Banks. We generally observed that, banking crisis management provisions in the parent legislations of WAMZ … their legal and regulatory frameworks with these provisions relevant for the resolution of such banks. …

We provide the first evidence that changes in risk-based capital requirements for banks affect the real economy through … international trade. Using a natural experiment – mandatory Basel II adoption in its Standardized Approach by all banks in Turkey on …

This paper studies liability management exercises (LME) by banks, which have comparable regulatory capital effects than …

Banks during the subprime crisis. Two indicators are used to assess the risk of bankruptcy, the Z-score and the rating. The … that capital adequacy requirements, liquidity position, restrictions and supervisory monitoring are the most statistically … significant bank specific factors which influence distress in European banks during the subprime crisis. In addition, we found …

English Abstract: In theory, Islamic banks are profit-and-loss-sharing (PLS) institutions. Nevertheless, literature … shows that, in practice, Islamic banks rely mainly on mark-up financing techniques compared to a marginal share of PLS … instruments. In this paper, we demonstrate that Islamic banks intermediation model is not very different than conventional banks …

English Abstract: This paper investigates the characteristics of Islamic banks by comparing them with those of … conventional banks. This will help us to know how various ratios proposed by the Basel III regulatory framework could be amended to … be appropriate for Islamic banks. By focusing on the risk-adjusted capital ratio and the leverage ratio, we show …