Various literatures mention that an increasingly concentrated market will have an impact on performance. This study … profitability of the Indonesian Islamic banking industry. This result implies that the performance of the Islamic banking industry … performance of the Islamic banking industry in Indonesia. …

issuers' price-setting. (iii) Higher risk taking by investors diminishes the performance further. Our results imply that … analyze returns along these components and also link them to investors' risk taking strategy. Our main findings are threefold …: (i) The overall performance is poor. (ii) Investors show neutral timing skills, while the main performance driver is the …

When purchasing a financial product, investors may actively decide upon the risk they take. This paper analyzes the … surroundings on their risk taking in the market of speculative exchange-traded retail products. Using a large trade dataset of … warrants and leverage certificates on an individual investor level, I find evidence that risk taking behavior is strongly …

This study analyses the impact of political factors on commercial banks' behaviour and performance in 11 CEE countries …

scope has a negative impact on performance on average. However, we find that firms whose expansion keeps them closer to the …

performance in financial institutions and in financial regulation and supervision all over the world. The contributors to the … present volume look with critical eyes on financial theories, supervisory structures, (mis)pricing of risk and distorted … incentives, risk management models and procedures, conflicts of interest and bank strategies. Their perspectives are quite …

beliefs and microfinance financial performance. We find that microfinance institutions in countries with higher levels of … provide the first large cross-country evidence that social beliefs are important determinants of microfinance performance. …

developing countries. This paper examines the impact of foreign bank participation on the performance of domestic banks in Turkey …-efficiency performance. This implies that if the market remains oligopolistic and segmented the entry of foreign banks is unlikely to have a … significant impact on the economic performance of the domestic banks. …

This paper examines the effect of the exchange rate regimes on bank performance across 15 EU member countries outside … positive effect on the banks’ performance during the pre-adoption of the Euro. The adoption of the common currency should not … determine a reversal of the performance effect. The results are not robust for all the performance measures employed. Moreover …