L'Islam interdit le riba, mot arabe signifiant a la fois usure et interet. L'interdiction du riba figure dans la loi islamique, nee dans l'Arabie du Moyen Age. Elle est a la base de la finance islamique qui connut une expansion remarquabke durant la deuxieme moitie du XXe siecle. Nous nous...

We document that a firm's culture — specifically, its religiosity — affects its cost of debt. Firms in higher-religiosity counties have higher credit ratings and lower debt costs. The impact of religiosity is stronger for firms with greater information asymmetry and during recessions....

This article investigates the impact of the socioreligious segregation of Dutch society on the asset allocation choices of rural bankers and the withdrawal behavior of their depositors during the early 1920s. Results suggest that cooperatively-owned Raiffeisen banks for both Catholic and...