This study considers whether Islamic banks and conventional banks have different levels of credit risk. One problem with existing research in this area is the dominance of accounting information to assess credit risk, and this could be especially misleading in the case of Islamic banking. Using...

This study considers whether Islamic banks and conventional banks have different levels of credit risk. One problem with existing research in this area is the dominance of accounting information to assess credit risk, and this could be especially misleading in the case of Islamic banking. Using...

Using GMM estimation techniques, this paper investigates the determinants of credit risk between Islamic and conventional banks in Bangladesh banking sector for the period from 2001 to 2011. This paper uses three separate proxies of credit risk namely NPL ratio, financial stability Z score and...

This paper undertakes a comparative analysis of the smart money effect in mutual funds - whereby investors are able to identify funds that subsequently perform well - in Malaysian Islamic and conventional domestic equity funds. We find that Islamic equity fund investors are unable to identify...

This research is undertaken to answer the question whether Islamic banks have higher or lower credit risk than that of their counterpart conventional banks. Since the onset of the financial crisis, researchers have debated over this issue and a growing literature has provided empirical evidence...