IRCCF Director, Professor Rym Ayadi, contributed to the second issue of the journal “European Economy” dedicated to banks, regulation and the real sector. Entitled “Who takes the risks for funding SMEs?” the issue was launched on October 27 during a Round Table at the Italian Senate....

The paper provides robust evidence that compliance with Basel Core Principles (BCPs) has a strong positive effect on the Z-score of conventional banks, albeit less pronounced on the Zscore of Islamic banks. Using a sample of banks operating in 19 developing countries, the results appear to be...

On 16th November 2009, SUERF, CEPS and the Belgian Financial Forum coorganized a conference "Crisis management at cross-roads" in Brussels. All papers in the present volume are based on contributions at the conference and the SUERF Annual Lecture which followed the event.

The paper provides robust evidence that compliance with Basel Core Principles (BCPs) has a strong positive effect on the Z-score of conventional banks, albeit less pronounced on the Zscoreof Islamic banks. Using a sample of banks operating in 19 developing countries, the results appear to be...