portfolio; however, the ideal lending portfoliocomposition in Islamic banks should be an equity-based lending portfolio. This … article explores the effects of the internal governance factors on lending portfolio compositionofIslamic banks in the GCC … size and Shariah board cross-membership, have significant effects on lending portfolio composition of Islamic banks in the …

average bank borrowing costs, it's ostensible target. In this paper we provide two types of evidence that this is the case. We … first show that bank quotes in the Libor survey are difficult to rationalize by observable cost measures, including a given … bank's quotes in other currency panels. Our second type of evidence is based on a simple model of bank quote choices in the …