In this paper, we examine risk taking by publicly traded and privately owned banks in an institutionally diversified international sample of countries. Using the Z–score as our primary risk proxy, we find that publicly traded banks engage in less risky activities than their privately owned...

We examine the relation between state residual ownership and bank risk-taking for privatized banks from 45 countries. Applying propensity score matching, we find that privatized banks tend to exhibit higher levels of risk-taking post-privatization than their publicly listed non-privatized...

This paper examines the effect of competition and banking regulation on the systemic risk of Islamic Banks (IBs) and Conventional Banks (CBs). Using an unbalanced panel data comprising 80 IBs and 204 CBs from 17 emerging market countries from 2000 to 2019, the results show that higher...