This paper investigates the effect of bank competition and financial stability on economic growth by examining panel …-data from 38 European countries over 2001 to 2017. Bank competition is measured with the Boone indicator, and bank stability … effect of economic growth, and reverse causality in its estimation. Results show that bank stability significantly …

banks. Using a sample of 416 banks (58 Islamic and 358 conventional) in 12 countries, the findings indicate that an increase … in economic uncertainty significantly decreases the credit growth of conventional banks but does not have any significant … impact on Islamic banks' credit growth. Our results are robust to alternative specifications and addressing endogeneity …