This paper investigates whether and how differently performance of Islamic banks is affected when female directors sit in the board. We study a unique sample of 1,528 observations on 71 Islamic banks and 120 conventional banks operating in eleven Muslim countries over 2010-2017 period. We find...

Purpose: This study aims to examine whether the soundness of Islamic banks is differently affected by corruption compared to conventional counterparts. Moreover, the Shari’ah supervisory board (SSB), as a cornerstone of Islamic banking and representing a multi-layer corporate governance...

This paper investigates whether the risk-taking of Islamic banks is differently affected by corruption compared to conventional banks. Indeed, the presence of Shari’ah supervisory boards (SSBs), as a cornerstone of Islamic banking, is expected to deter the influence of corruption on...

This paper investigates the effect of bank competition and financial stability on economic growth by examining panel-data from 38 European countries over 2001 to 2017. Bank competition is measured with the Boone indicator, and bank stability with Z-scores and non-performing loan ratios, all at...