Purpose - The purpose of this study is to assess how incarcerations persist across the world. The focus is on 163 …

The study analyses the impact of country’s governance factors on the financial behaviour and performance of financial … proxies for capturing the various dimensions of a country’s good governance, while 21 financial indicators represent the … considered (almost two-thirds of the financial indicators considered). Even after controlling for the lagged effect of governance …

market-based and bank-based systems throughout the world across both developed and underdeveloped economies. The findings … matter for the relative merits of bank-based and market-based financial systems. Market-based systems work better in low rule … of law countries, while bank-based systems are more efficient in high-rule of law countries. These results are consistent …

; however, the impact of bank profitability on economic growth is still unclear. We investigate the link between bank … of bank profitability on economic growth is more prominent in small banking sectors. Perhaps surprisingly, we found that … the bank size has a negative impact on GDP growth, with the influence of bank profitability on economic growth reducing as …