This article tests the possibility and the degree of persistence of self-fulfilling banking panics through an experimental protocol. Panics are proved to be persistent phenomena that are difficult to prevent. However, it seems possible to curb them through a learning effect caused by a temporary...

Ce papier se propose d'étudier expérimentalement la capacité d'une assurance des dépôts, proposant une couverture partielle, à prévenir ou arrêter une panique bancaire auto-réalisatrice. On montre tout d'abord que la prévention des paniques nécessite, pour être efficace, une...

The purpose of this paper is to verify experimentally the possibility and the degree of persistence of a self-fulfilling bank panic. Furthermore, we test various means to prevent or to curb it: the suspension of deposit convertibility, the "narrow banking" solution. We confirm the possibility of...

[fre] La réglementation prudentielle n'est qu'une des composantes du contrôle bancaire ; son rôle est néanmoins crucial. Si son objectif de sécurité et de stabilité du secteur bancaire est généralement admis, le choix de ses instruments est plus controversé. Une analyse comparée de la...

We investigate whether and how political systems affect the financial soundness of conventional and Islamic banks. Using factors extracted from principal component analysis, we find that Islamic banks underperform their conventional counterparts in more democratic political systems but...

Using a sample of US banks between 2001 and 2013, this paper investigates the impact of competition on bank efficiency, the bank-specific factors that increase the likelihood of securitization, the previously untested impact of securitization on efficiency, and the effect of the interaction...

We report new evidence on the bank and country-level determinants of Islamic bank capital ratios in 28 countries between 1999 and 2013. Overall, we find that smaller, more profitable, and highly liquid Islamic banks are more highly capitalized. Additionally, improvements in the economic and...

We show that higher capital and liquidity ratios increase the efficiency of conventional and Islamic banks. Using conditional quantile regressions, we further show that the effect is stronger for highly efficient, small, highly liquid, and highly capitalized conventional banks. We also find that...

Using a sample of 21,030 US firm-year observations that represents more than 3,000 individual firms over the period 1998-2012, we investigate the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and investment efficiency. In consistency with our expectations that high CSR firms enjoy...

This paper benefits from various risk- and non-risk-based regulatory capital ratios and examines their impact on bank risk and performance in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Our findings suggest that compliance with Basel capital requirements enhances bank protection against...