This article reviews empirical studies on Islamic banking and concentrates on their main
findings while highlighting future research directions. The earlier literature on Islamic …

The global financial crisis has induced a series of failures of most conventional banks. This
study investigates the main sources of banking fragility. We use a sample of 49 banks …

In this paper, we explore whether economic uncertainty differently affects the default risk of
Islamic and conventional banks. Using a sample of 568 banks from 20 countries between …

Non-performing loans (NPLs, henceforth) represent the main challenge that jeopardizes the
steadiness of the banking sector. The purpose of this study is to explore the main …

Banks' credit risk, mostly conveyed by the level of non‐performing loans (NPLs) and
considered as a prominent threat to the banking sector stability, has been widely discussed …

The aim of this study is to empirically examine the bank-specific, financial, and
macroeconomic determinants of performance of Islamic and conventional banks in Pakistan …

This paper contributes to the empirical literature on Islamic finance by investigating the
feature of Islamic and conventional banks in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries over …

A major issue in both Islamic finance and conventional finance is whether the shocks to the
volatilities in the asset returns are substitutes or complements in terms of taking risk. An …

Abstract Research Question/Issue We systematically review the corporate governance (CG)
literature on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), organize it into six main themes and …

Purpose This study examines the relationship between banks' competition performance and
risk-taking behavior concerning the impacts of bank size and the recent global financial …