across countries, which could explain the plurality in conclusions in the Islamic/conventional bank efficiency debate. We … find that the alignment between the two bank types is positively related to the country's financial depth, transparency …, economic stability and banking concentration. At the bank level, the alignment in the two banking systems is associated with …

This paper measures the economy-wide impact of bank distress on the loss of relationship benefits. We use the near …-collapse of the Norwegian banking system during the period 1988 to 1991 to measure the impact of bank distress announcements on … the stock prices of firms maintaining a relationship with a distressed bank. We find that although banks experience large …

impact of competition on bank orientation - i.e., the choice of relationship based versus transactional banking - and bank … industry specialization. We empirically investigate the impact of interbank competition on bank branch orientation and … specialization. We employ a unique data set containing detailed information on bank-firm relationships and industry classification …