The purpose of this paper is to measure the impact of internal and external corporate governance mechanisms on the financial performance of banks in the under-researched Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) region during the COVID-19 pandemic period. Bank annual reports, the Orbis Bank Focus...

The objective of this study is to determine the impact of oil price fluctuations on the financial performance of banking sector in 8 oil producing and exporting countries in Middle East region (Kingdom Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrein, Kuwait, Jordan, Oman, Iran) in the period...

The intention of this research is to provide more evidence related to women entrepreneurs by selecting an unexplored sample coming from two different regions: The Middle East and the Western Europe countries. It aims to explore the profile of women entrepreneurs and to further investigate the...

The research aims to empirically test the impacts of political crisis and economic recession during 2010-2015 on the performance and financial behavior of Islamic and conventional banks in the Middle East region. The period of the study (2010-2015) is divided to three phases (stability, economic...

The research aims to empirically study the capital structure and the performance of the banking sector in Middle East countries during a period of 6 years (between 2011 and 2016). By using 143 banks and 723 observations, the study shows that the capital structure of the banking sector was very...

The objective of this study is to examine the determinants of bank liquidity in the Middle East region. It also aims to compare the liquidity levels of banking sectors between Middle Eastern countries. Two different liquidity measures, four bank specific factors and three macroeconomic factors...

The purpose of this paper is to measure the impact of internal and external corporate governance mechanisms on the financial performance of banks in the under-researched Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) region during the COVID-19 pandemic period. Bank annual reports, the Orbis Bank Focus...