Purpose Islamic finance is an alternative approach of financial intermediation based on risk-
sharing and asset-backed operations, which evolved substantially in recent years in …

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has been exerting negative effects on several economies
in 2020. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to examine the impact of this pandemic on …

Islamic finance research has proliferated in the past five years. Between 1982 and 2020, a
total of 315 research articles have been published in high quality journals. This paper …

This paper evaluates the stock performance of Islamic banks relative to their conventional
counterparts during the initial phase of the COVID-19 crisis (from December 31, 2019, to …

We investigate how risk committee and Chief Risk Officer's characteristics affect the risk-
taking behavior of Asian commercial banks in the aftermath of the global financial crisis …

This study examines the effect of environmental and social (ES) activities on global banking
stability in the shadow of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Using a sample of 244 commercial …

This study aims to assess the influence of internal and external factors on the Efficiency of
banks in Pakistan using the Data Envelopment Analysis Approach (DEA). Bank's Efficiency …

This study examines the impact of board busyness (ie multiple directorships of outside board
members) on the performance and financial stability of banks in a dual banking system …

We explore how banks' income and stock prices respond to the COVID-19 policy measures
in countries with the dual-banking system, and whether Islamic banks over-or underperform …

This study specifically investigates the effects of external governance mechanisms and
regulatory settings on the profitability of Islamic banks operating in the Arab markets from …