Purpose - The purpose of this study is to find the empirical causal relationship between Islamic bank term deposit … rates (IBTDR) and conventional bank term deposit rates (CBTDR) in the short-term. Design/methodology/approach - This study … research on the reasons for causality. Originality/value - There has not been any study of this nature in Pakistan to identify …

vary substantially across studies. In this paper, we aim for a comprehensive empirical analysis of a bank merger's impact … for the rigidity of the deposit rates and for a range of merger, bank and local market features. An innovation of our work … impact of bank mergers on deposit rates. In particular, results on the dynamics of deposit rates surrounding bank mergers …