study recommends appropriate economic and financial reforms, with focus on the roles of banks and SM roles to reduce poverty … is the first of its kind to empirically examine, separately, the impact of banks development and SM development, on an …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the informational opacity of Tunisian banks versus non … volatility. Findings – The results suggest that bank stock prices incorporate less specific information than non‐banks. Moreover …, banks are more likely to experience stock price crashes. However, the authors find a significant decrease of informational …

/methodology/approach – The issue of the banks' compatibility to support the stakeholder's interests is examined by two separate questionnaires … complementary sources of financing. Regarding the stakeholders' effects on banks performance, the results show that: banks' support … to shareholders interests is positively associated with banks profitability and liquidity, banks support to suppliers …

/methodology/approach – The sample comprises a total of 11 banks (four state‐owned and seven joint‐stock commercial banks) listed in the Chinese … state‐owned and joint‐stock banks, while the capital level is negatively related to joint‐stock commercial banks. With … productivity improve the performance of both state‐owned and joint‐stock commercial banks. Large volume of non‐traditional activity …

‐series analysis for causality as well as the newly developed panel unit root and cointegration techniques and estimated finance … of unidirectional causality running from market‐oriented as well as bank‐oriented financial systems to economic growth.  …

Southeast Asian countries and the economic growth. Design/methodology/approach The presence of Islamic banks is measured by the …-compliant banks succeeded in mobilizing additional resources for the financial sector, which may increase the stability of the banking …

econometric analysis, namely, panel cointegration and Granger causality on 20-year panel data on 16 major Indian states to … investigate the causality. Findings The results suggest GDP to Granger cause public expenditure on health both in the short run …