We look at the profitability measures of the conventional and Islamic banking sectors in 5 GCC countries. We focus on the bank specific profitability determinants using panel regression models. In contrast to some of the results in the literature, we find no significant differences between the...

This paper answers a common regression misconception regarding the distribution of the predicted variable of a regression model. Adding to the confusing is the assumption that normally distributed error terms necessarily must come from normally distributed predicted variables. In this article,...