This paper examines market discipline of Australian credit unions, and the impacts of the global financial crisis and the 2008 deposit guarantee scheme. The prior literature has focused on the market discipline of banks rather than credit unions. Using a unique sample of 204 Australian credit...

This paper examines whether variations in strong boards explain the differences between risk-taking in Islamic and conventional banks. From an analysis of a pooled sample of Islamic and conventional banks, we find that strong boards in general serve their shareholders through engaging in higher...

This paper examines the impact of five distinct Basel 3 announcements had on systematic risk levels of 122 internationally active banks in 37 countries over the sample period 2007-2013 using an extension of the Wagster (1996) market model. We extend the prior literature with methodology that...

This paper focuses on Islamic joint venture (IJV) bonds and examines whether conventional structural credit risk models capture Islamic bonds' underlying risk. Their various extensions have first been adjusted for the IJV bonds' unique characteristics and then tested through simulations to...

While insurance plays an important role in the financial sector, it is often ignored in the financial development-economic growth literature. This paper examines the relationship between insurance and economic growth via a global cross-country study over 1980 to 2006, using both cross-sectional...

Prior studies have examined the development of the financial system and its impact on economic growth, but little has been said about the relationship between its four major components: banking, the stock market, the bond market (private and public bond) and insurance (life and nonlife). Using a...

This study examines whether loan terms are jointly determined and if information asymmetries' effects on them across revolving and term loans. A simultaneous equation model is applied for revolving and term loans made by US commercial banks to US corporate borrowers from 1987 to 2009. The...