Macroprudential policy mainly aims to enhance financial stability and reduce the possibility of costly financial crises. However, to achieve this, macroprudential policy decisions may have some unintended side effects on economic growth. The paper provides an empirical framework for...

The study aims to investigate the effects of financial inclusion on the performance of the banking sector, measured by the return on assets, for a set of 11 Arab countries over the 2013-2019 period in the dynamic panel data framework. In addition to financial inclusion indicators, We include...

Interest increased after the last global financial crisis in 2007, as the crisis revealed the challenges facing central banks in dealing with the financial crises arising from the banking sector, and thus exposing the financial positions of the banking sector to high risks that caused the...

The study continues in the same momentum of empirical works on the concentration-stability relationship of the banking sector by examining such a relationship for a panel of 15 Arab economies over the 2013-2019 period in the framework of dynamic panel data models and by controlling for auxiliary...

Many empirical studies on the reactions of the net interest margin to the fluctuations in bank-specific variables, banking industry-related determinants, monetary policy variables, and macroeconomic factors have emerged in the related literature. The current study continues in the same momentum...

The literature has extensively focused on the sensitivity of the capital adequacy ratio to the changes in bank-specific and economic variables in developing and developed economies. The current study continues in the same momentum by examining the effects of bank-specific and economic factors on...

This paper examines the potential impact of the macroprudential policy instruments related to assets (Asset-side instruments), specifically the loan-to-value (LTV) and debt-to-income (DTI) ratios, on controlling the systemic risks arising from the household sector, by measuring the impact of...