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The recorded success of a number of Islamic banks during the recent global financial crisis has indeed attracted the attention of a number of conventional commercial banks. Because these conventional banks are now operating Islamic windows, Islamic banks must focus their efforts on building...
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Microcredit interest costs remain higher than those of commercial banks in spite of significant donor funds, largely owing to transaction costs relative to small loan sizes. With the rise of Web 2.0 and online social interactivity, can these transaction costs be reduced through peer to peer...
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This study explores the relationship between organizational legitimacy and illegitimacy. It combines media content analysis and quantitative approaches to empirically investigate this link in the specific context of investment banks in the United States. Illegitimacy can paradoxically signal...
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empirical regularity that banks with higher capitalization attract more deposits at lower cost. Bank rebranding tends to … bank into a foreign named one is associated with increased depositor discipline. In a similar manner, depositor discipline … tends to decrease in the short-run if the bank rebrands from a foreign name to a Turkish one. These results suggest the …
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This paper explores the track of marketing, by referring to the literature, through the advancements in digitalized technological systems particularly Information Technologies (IT), the emergence of a more broadly educated and more discerning consumer with increasing discretionary spending and...
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The study based on a sample of 61 UAE listed companies examines the determinants of value creation. Size in terms of total assets of a firm is inversely related to value creation. Value as measured by market to book value of equity is negatively related to the size measured by total assets....
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Liquidity is an important variable for the bank and the banking system components. So it is interesting to show its …, delayed liquidity) have significant impact on bank liquidity while (size, total loans / total assets, financial costs/ total … credits, total deposits / total assets) does not have a significant impact on bank liquidity. …
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-taking incentives of bank CEOs. Using a sample of U.S. banks over the period 1992-2006, we provide empirical evidence consistent with …
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Through a consideration of factors which have resulted in a more reduced role for the external auditor in certain jurisdictions – when compared to others, this paper will consider, as well as highlight why an enhanced awareness of the role of the external auditor in such jurisdictions will be...
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As well as addressing the Basel Committee's proposals to strengthen global capital and liquidity regulations, this paper also considers several reasons why information disclosure should be encouraged. These include the fact that imperfect information is considered to be a cause of market failure...
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