This paper investigates the relative importance of Islamic banks, alongside their conventional counterparts, impacting the banking and financial development and economic welfare. Using a sample of 22 Muslim countries, with dual-banking systems, during the 1999-2011, this paper reports some...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare the effects of Islamic financial development and conventional financial development on the economic growth for five GCC countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar Saudi Arabia and UAE).Design/Methodology/Approach – Using generalized least squares, OLS...

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...

This research aims to understand the nonlinear relationship between financial inclusion and Islamic banking stability, as well as the moderating effect of corporate social responsibility on this relationship. To do so, we use a sample of 27 Islamic banks operating in the GCC countries (Kuwait,...