Microfinance is an emerging concept which is improving the socioeconomic status of customers. This study assesses customer satisfaction of clients of Islamic and conventional microfinance providers using a sample of 578 clients i.e. 289 from each side. Akhuwat and Kashf (Islamic microfinance)...

Who Listened? Unappreciated Teachings of New Institutional Economics Related to the Financial Crisis of 2008 Who was listening before the Financial Crisis of 2008 to Arrow's warnings and the teachings of Coase? Due to transaction costs, incomplete foresight and bounded rationality not all risks...

In this paper, we use a fully anonymized dataset provided by the German Savings Banks Association (DSGV) to analyse which savings banks have expanded into fee-producing activities more quickly. In addition, we investigate whether their profitability and stability is correlated with the share of...

This paper examines the effects of macroeconomic policy and regulatory environment on mobile money usage. Specifically, we develop an autoregressive distributed lag model to investigate the effect of key macroeconomic variables and mobile money tax on mobile money usage in Uganda. Using monthly...

In this paper, we use a fully anonymized dataset provided by the German Savings Banks Association (DSGV) to analyse which savings banks have expanded into fee-producing activities more quickly. In addition, we investigate whether their profitability and stability is correlated with the share of...

Credit default swaps ("CDSs") were widely blamed as a primary cause of the recent financial crisis; CDSs fomented panic as the price of credit protection spiked and contributed to the Federal Reserve's decision to bail out American International Group. To reduce the likelihood that credit...

Given the fragmented structure of the U.S. government, business is able to capitalize on its structural power only when it is united. This paper illustrates this dynamic through an analysis of the processes leading to the enactment of the Financial Modernization Act (FMA) of 1999, which repealed...

Participation banks have been operating as a third kind of banks as well as deposit banks and development/investment banks in Turkish Banking System since 1985. Participation banks are operating according to Islamic principles. Therefore, they do not use interest in collecting and utilizing...

This editorial examines global efforts to regulate the shadow banking system, in particular the green paper released by the European Commission in March 2012. It suggests that the financial market landscape in Europe is currently in flux and large swings in market activity — either through...