The Saudi Arabian economy has changed almost beyond recognition since the oil boom
days of the 1980s, and the Kingdom itself has changed too economically, socially, and …

Many previous studies have focused on the impact of finance on economic growth.
However, few studies have examined the impact of Islamic banking on economic growth. To …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of internal and external
variables on the profitability of conventional banks operating on developing and …

This study determines whether it is possible to distinguish between conventional and Islamic
banks in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region on the basis of financial characteristics …

Contribution/Originality: This study contributes in the existing literature of single country
analysis of Islamic banks, especially in context of Saudi Arabia, where the literature is very …

This study analyses the technical efficiency of Saudi Arabian banks using a two-stage DEA-
data envelopment analysis approach. In the first stage, we use a bootstrapped DEA–VRS …

This paper is a commentary on the financial performance and quality capital of Islamic banks
versus Conventional banks currently operating in the GCC region. In addition to assessing …

The purpose of this empirical study is to analyze and compare the performance of Islamic
and conventional banking in United Arab of Emirates using financial ratio analysis (FRA), to …

Purpose–The paper seeks to explore the factors that would make an impact on the corporate
image of large commercial banks in Saudi Arabia through the perceptions of direct …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to estimate the data envelopment analysis (DEA)
efficiency scores and Malmquist productivity indices of banks in Saudi Arabia, an economy …