Our results show that US banks with a relatively high share of non-interest income become riskier with a moving toward non-interest-generating activities, especially activities from investment banking, proprietary trading, etc. The findings also prove, although weakly, that banks with a...

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....

We investigate whether and how political systems affect the financial soundness of conventional and Islamic banks. Using factors extracted from principal component analysis, we find that Islamic banks underperform their conventional counterparts in more democratic political systems but...