There is a need to explore the moderating role of banks' efficiency in the relationship between corporate governance (CG) and default probability in Pakistan. Such attention is required due to poor bank governance, which threatens banks' stability. This empirical study's objective is to...

This paper examines how free cash flow and equity concentration are associated with agency costs, and how they influence the profitability of insurance firms listed in the Saudi Stock Market. The results indicate that equity concentration has no significant impact on agency costs, free cash flow...

This paper investigates the relationship between legal origin and banks' risk-taking behavior. We employ GMM to study a sample of both Islamic and conventional banks from 14 dual banking economies from 2005-2018. Our findings can be summarized as follows: (a) bank risk-taking and legal origin...

Using hand collected information of Shariah scholars on 114 Islamic banks over the period of 8 years, link between intermediation margin and reputation of these scholars is investigated. Consistent with resource-based view and signalling theory, we found positive association between the two...