The positive relation between financial development and economic growth seems to have weakened in recent years and when analyzing only developed countries. We suggest here that banks' relative ability to intermediate funds cost-efficiently is a quality-based measure of financial development that...

This paper investigates the relative importance of Islamic banks, alongside their conventional counterparts, impacting the banking and financial development and economic welfare. Using a sample of 22 Muslim countries, with dual-banking systems, during the 1999-2011, this paper reports some...