Recent studies indicate that lending portfoliocomposition in Islamic banks is concentrated towardsdebt-based lending … portfolio; however, the ideal lending portfoliocomposition in Islamic banks should be an equity-based lending portfolio. This … article explores the effects of the internal governance factors on lending portfolio compositionofIslamic banks in the GCC …

(long-term incentive) for commercial banks (conventional and Islamic banks) in MENA countries. Specifically, we take board … Islamic banks in testing these relationships. Using a sample of 65 banks in MENA countries for the period between 2009 and …

We study the effect of board governance in state-owned and private banks by undertaking a study of commercial banks in … exhibiting a significant positive correlation with the performance of private banks and a significant but negative correlation … with the performance of state-owned banks. The effect of CEO duality is negative in state-owned banks where incidence of …

Over the past decade, one popular way for Turkish banks to remove nonperforming loans (NPLs) from their balance sheets …, we compare banks included in the Corporate Governance Index (XCORP) with other banks. Our event-study results suggest … corporate governance. More important, the stocks of these banks are efficiently priced, while the non-XCORP banks have …

This study analyzes the effect that banks' investments in corporate social responsibility (CSR) have on bank … performance. I find that banks' investments in CSR have a positive impact on financial performance, measured in terms of both … constituents value bank CSR activities. I find that CSR-related value creation is primarily a result of banks' external investments …

the possible repercussions of these on the performance of banks can be avoided only by implementing a solid system of … governance. The main purpose of this article is to determine the impact of governance on the performance of banks, through an … empirical study of a sample of 10 Tunisian banks during the period 1997-2007. Our empirical investigation shows a positive …

the aftermath of executive appointments of banks and large corporate shareholders, restructuring and improved performances … generates the substitution of role of corporate governance between banks and large corporate shareholders. …

The main aim of this article is to demonstrate a holistic framework for measuring a bank’s financial health by … qualitative and quantitative components, with the banks’ ratings. The dependent variable is the bank’s financial health score …, represented by a dummy variable based on the bank’s rating by the rating agencies and from the relevant value of each bank that …

violations. A series of analyses suggest that part of this decline in disclosure reflects a delegation of monitoring to banks by …