Governance and Financial Difficulties of Conventional Banks

Corporate Governance Practices in Bangladesh: A Comparative Analysis between Conventional Banks and Islamic Banks

Corporate governance (CG) is an important effort to ensure accountability and responsibility and is a set of principles, which should be incorporated into every part of the organization. This study focused on the state of Corporate Governance (CG) in two categories of the banking industries: Conventional Banks and Islamic Banks. As Conventional Banks and Islamic Banks differ a great deal in the...

corporate governance practices in bangladesh: a comparative analysis between conventional banks and islamic banks

corporate governance (cg) is an important effort to ensure accountability and responsibility and is a set of principles, which should be incorporated into every part of the organization. this study focused on the state of corporate governance (cg) in two categories of the banking industries: conventional banks and islamic banks. as conventional banks and islamic banks differ a great deal in the...

Financial Sanctions and Iranian Banks’ Performance

In this study, we use Stochastic Frontier analysis approach to estimate cost efficiency, economies of scale, and technological progress among Iranian banks from 1999 to 2012. The results show that there is a marked difference in cost efficiency before and after the recent financial sanctions against Iranian banking industry. Moreover, the results indicate that specialized government-owned banks...

Cooperative Banks and Financial Stability

Cooperative banks are an important, and growing, part of many financial systems. The paper analyzes empirically the role of cooperative banks in financial stability. Contrary to some suggestions in the literature, we find that cooperative banks are more stable than commercial banks. This finding is due to much lower volatility of the cooperative banks’ returns, which more than offsets their low...

Governance and Financial Fragility