The purpose of this study is to examine the United Arab Emirates (UAE) national banks' practices of corporate governance regarding the role of the board of directors in the formulation and implementation of bank policies and strategies. A modified questionnaire has been used with two parts; the...

In this paper, we explore whether economic uncertainty differently affects the default risk of Islamic and conventional banks. Using a sample of 568 banks from 20 countries between 2009 and 2018, we use the World Uncertainty Index (WUI) by Ahir et al. (2018) to conduct a study based on a...

This paper examines the impact of bank financial characteristics, environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores and variation in the stringency of government policy responses to bank stock returns as a response to COVID-19 pandemic. We use a sample of 1927 listed banks from 110 countries....