intermediation cost in banking. Hence, bank managers in their efforts to overcome asymmetric information issues and to improve … preserve bank opacity. Our findings highlight that bank opacity issues are even more costly in countries with higher …

This paper investigates the effect of bank competition and financial stability on economic growth by examining panel …-data from 38 European countries over 2001 to 2017. Bank competition is measured with the Boone indicator, and bank stability … effect of economic growth, and reverse causality in its estimation. Results show that bank stability significantly …

bank core capital, suggesting that bank managers tend to increase pure equity to signal better monitoring efforts and avoid … (PLS) principle that considers depositors as investors who agree to share profits and losses with the bank, thus making the …

We investigate the impact of global and local crises on bank stability in the MENA region and examine the effect of … owning bank subsidiaries in other countries. We consider banks that experienced both types of crises during our sample period …. Our findings highlight a negative impact of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 on bank stability but, on the whole …

This study investigates the influence of background diversity of bank board members on performance and risk. Using data …, education level and type) and find significant impacts on bank performance. On the whole, diversity is in general positively …

We examine the roles of information sharing, strength of legal rights and bank size on the procyclical effect of bank …

We examine the influence of economic policy uncertainty on bank stability post-2007-2008 global financial crisis. We … observations for US commercial banks over the period from 2011Q1 to 2020Q3 and find consistent and robust evidence that bank … indicates that the decrease in bank stability not only originates from borrowers’ and customers’ conditions but also from a …

, we explore the influence of religiosity, institutional factors, and bank-level heterogeneity. We observe that Islamic …