Earnings management can be either opportunistic, adding noise to reported earnings, or informative about a firm's underlying economic performance, adding valuable information to financial reports. This study examines earnings management in banks with differing levels of information asymmetry....

Abstract.Using a sample of 291 banks from 35 OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) member countries with 2078 bank-year observations from 2003 to 2010, we analyze if bank earnings management in terms of Loan Loss Provisioning (LLP hereafter) is affected by the banking nature.We take into...

Using a sample of 291 banks from 35 OIC (Organization of Islamic Conference) member Muslim countries with 2078 bank year observations from 2003 to 2008, we analyze if bank earning management in terms of Loan Loss Provisioning (LLP hereafter) is affected by the banking nature whether Islamic or...

We exploit the staggered nature of interstate banking and branching deregulation of the U.S. to examine the causal impact of bank competition on corporate socially responsible (CSR) activities. We find strong and robust evidence that bank deregulation significantly and negatively affects the CSR...

This paper studies the sociological influence of religion on the risk and return in the financial markets with particular context of Islamic finance. The paper builds a theoretical model to show how intermediaries serve their customers' religious needs by creating innovative Islamic financial...

To avoid the complexity and time consumption of traditional statistical and mathematical programming, intelligent techniques have gained great attention in different financial research areas, especially in banking decisions' optimization. However, choosing optimum bank lending decisions that...

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...