Using a sample of 291 banks from 35 OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) member Muslim countries with 2078 bank … Standards (hereafter IFRS), and by the bank listing status. We argue that Islamic banks may exhibit lower signs of earning … management, as the Sharia’h Supervisory Boards (SSB hereafter) in Islamic banks may work as an additional tier into the …

We combine two datasets to examine whether the presence of banks affects the profitability and outreach of microfinance …

expecially severe in emerging markets, characterized by weak institutions and banks with poorly developed monitoring and … screening abilities. Exploiting a unique sample of Vietnamese loans, we show that by updating their credit scoring models banks … credit scoring models is a viable alternative to credit rationing for banks and, in combination with relationship lending …

. We do so using an agent-based model populated by heterogeneous capital- and consumption-good firms, heterogeneous banks …

in mortgages and a marked decline in household savings. As a consequence banks are faced with a large retail funding gap … outstanding mortgage debt is insufficiently matched by retail deposits, whereas other funding possibilities of banks have …

We study the effects of a bank’s engagement in trading. Traditional banking is relationship-based: not scalable, long … leads trading in banks to become increasingly risky, so that problems in managing and regulating trading in banks will …

an investor holding a portfolio of banks. Based on this view, we investigate the role of large banks in determining the … systemic risk in this portfolio. Our results, based on book data of U.S. banks and Bank Holding Companies, indicate that the … largest banks are consistently overrepresented in the current portfolio compared with the minimum variance portfolio. Moreover …