The aim of the paper is to determine whether Tunisian Islamic and conventional banks are distinguishable from one another [on the basis of financial characteristics, in particular, profitability, liquidity, credit, insolvency risks] during 2005-2014 for a sample contains 16 banks (14...

Our paper evaluates the capital structure of Malaysian firms from a unique perspective by evaluating the impact of Shari’ah compliance on firms’ financing decision. We find that firms that are Shari’ah compliant tend to lean towards lower debt issues to finance their deficits, implying...

This paper contributes to the empirical literature on interest-free finance by investigating the feature of interest-free and conventional banks in Turky and 6 MENA countries over the period 2005–2014. To distinguish between interest-free and conventional banks [in terms of Profitability,...

This paper consider Tunisian banks case study over the period 2005–2014. The long run comparison analysis based on t-test between interest-free banks (IFB) and conventional banks (CB) of bank specific factors indicates that there are difference between Islamic and conventional banks behavior....

This paper contributes to the empirical literature on interest-free finance by investigating the feature of interest-free (IB) and conventional banks (CBs) in Quatar over the period 2005–2014. To distinguish between IBs and CBs, we use at first stage two-sided t-test. With univariate...

This paper consider Turkish banks case study over the period 2005–2014. To distinguish between interest-free and conventional banks, we use two-sided t-test, Multi-dimension figures, regression comparison method and Dynamic Fixed Effect (DFE) model. The long run comparison analysis [based on...

This paper focuses on agency theory to explain investment behavior difference between private domestic and foreign in Senegalese industry. We put domestic companies into two groups with regard to managerial ownership and institutional ownership. An augmented accelerator model with demand...

Supply chain strategy is one of the main prerogatives of a corporate board. How does corporate board diversity affect buyer-supplier relationships? Following a requirement for California firms to increase board gender diversity, affected buyers consolidated their supply base by reducing...

This paper defines economic value added as an instrument of the efficiency’s evaluation in the Czech capital market. EVA is a new evaluation criterion of efficiency in the Czech Republic and in practice it is not much applied in the Czech companies. EVA is just used for big companies. Typical...

This paper examines the effects of improvement in creditors’ rights protection on firms’ financing choices and securities issuance. To address these issues, I exploit exogenous variation in creditors’ rights protection induced by the staggered adoption of anti-recharacterization laws by...