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Performance of Microfinance Institutions in Muslim Countries
Ashraf, Ali - 2017
preference of Islamic microfinance over conventional microfinance, we analyze if performance measures and their factors for … Microfinance Institutions (hereafter referred as MFIs) in Muslim countries are significantly different from their non … membership in OIC show lower inclination to popular Islamic beliefs and higher market penetration of conventional Microfinance …
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Shari'a governance in Bahrain: Analysing the Islamic banking industry's implementation of the newly issued regulatory Shari'a governance module
Al-Saadi, Abdulrahman; Hassan, M. Kabir; Alkhan, Ahmed … - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 15 (2022) 10, pp. 1-22
Shari'a governance is considered a crucial element of the Islamic banking industry. As recent as 2017, Islamic banks in the Kingdom of Bahrain were required by the regulator to have only a Shari'a Supervisory Board and an internal Shari'a function. In 2017, the Central Bank of Bahrain issued a...
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The Determinants of Derivatives Activities in U.S. Commercial Banks
Khasawneh, Ahmad Y. - 2012
This paper aims to test the extent to which the tax regulatory and market discipline hypotheses determine derivative activities of U.S. commercial banks for the period starting 1992 through 2008. We employ Mansfield's (1961) logistic diffusion model and we consider derivative activities as real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116372
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The Risks of Off-Balance Sheet Derivatives in U.S. Commercial Banks
Khasawneh, Ahmad Y. - 2012
This paper aims to test the extent to which the tax regulatory and discipline hypotheses determine derivative activities of U.S. commercial banks for period starting 1992 through 2008. We employ Mansfield's (1961) logistic diffusion model and we consider derivative activities as real financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116373
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The Determinants of Derivatives Activities in U.S. Commercial Banks
Hassan, M. Kabir - 2012
This paper aims to test the extent to which the tax regulatory and market discipline hypotheses determine derivative activities of U.S. commercial banks for the period starting 1992 through 2008. We employ Mansfield's (1961) logistic diffusion model and we consider derivative activities as real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116754
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Economic Freedom and Bank Intermediation Spreads : Do Countries Level of Economic Development Make a Difference?
Sufian, Fadzlan - 2011
The impact of economic freedom on the well being of the economy has been widely documented in the literature. Noticeably absent is empirical evidence on the influence of economic freedom on cost of financial intermediation. This limitation is somewhat surprising given the fact that the banking...
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Efficiency Determinants and Dynamic Efficiency Changes in Latin American Banking Industries
Sanchez, Benito - 2013
This paper investigates the determinants of efficiency and dynamic efficiency changes across Latin American banking industries during recent periods of financial liberalization. Allocative, technical, pure technical, and scale efficiency measures are calculated and analyzed for seven Latin...
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The Pronounced Impact of Macroeconomic Stress on the Financial Sector : Implications for Real Sector Growth
Hassan, M. Kabir - 2013
The financial sector incurred big losses during the recent financial collapse and recession. The losses occurred despite regulatory requirements imposed upon the financial services industry meant to ensure confidence and stability. This study analyzes the profitability and stock returns of...
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Ethical Gaps and Market Value in the Islamic Banks of Bangladesh
Hassan, M. Kabir - 2013
Abstract: This study measures the ethical identity of Islamic banks in Bangladesh over the period 2001 to 2006. An index of ethical identity, following Haniffa and Hudaib (2007), is constructed by drawing information revealed in the annual reports of the banks. The index is composed of eight...
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Pricing Beliefs : Empirical Evidence from the Implied Cost of Deposit Insurance for Islamic Banks
Grira, Jocelyn - 2016
Using a large international sample of 348,899 year-firm observations covering 352 Islamic banks and 30,572 conventional banks in 213 countries over the 1999-2013 period, we estimate the deposit insurance premiums of Islamic banks and conventional banks. We find that the premiums for publicly...
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