Using hand collected data of Islamic and the conventional banks; we investigate the effect of corporate and the Shariah governance on the value of cash reserves. Overall, the findings indicate that there is a significant difference between the value of cash holdings across poorly governed and...

The objective of this study is to explore the impact of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failure on the major global asset classes. Apart from US T-Bills and the Gold, we do not find any significant response of other asset classes on the event day. More importantly, Gold seems to have acted as a safe...

This paper investigates the relationship between legal origin and banks' risk-taking behavior. We employ GMM to study a sample of both Islamic and conventional banks from 14 dual banking economies from 2005-2018. Our findings can be summarized as follows: (a) bank risk-taking and legal origin...