We explore the association between earnings and price for 400 IFRS adopting firms from eight countries (Australia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Singapore, Sweden and the UK) in their annual reports for the years 2005, 2008, 2011 and 2013 (1,577 firm-years). We find no difference in the...

The objectives of this paper is to assess whether there is any overall differences in the level of financial stability of Islamic banks as compared to conventional banks and whether such differences (if any) are linked to certain contractual constraints faced by Islamic banks (with the z-score...

The objective of this paper is to ascertain whether there are significant differences in the loan loss provisioning behaviour of Islamic banks as compared to conventional banks. We proposed that loan loss provisioning will be linked to the extent of profit distribution management. The results...

The objective of this paper is to ascertain whether Islamic banks do in fact manage profit distributions and if so, what factors are associated with the extent of profit distribution management. The results suggest that most Islamic banks manage profit distributions, with the extent of profit...