Product Markets and Paychecks: Deregulation's Effect on the Compensation Structure in Banking This paper asks how deregulation intended to promote competition in the commercial banking industry affected the compensation structure for banking employees. Using establishment-based data from the Employment Cost Index Survey of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, I obtain measures of the level and ...

Nowadays, the widespread connections among national and international organizations and industries make crisis in one area distress other organizations. One of the sensitive industries is banking industry, which has faced fundamental changes due to the various economic and political crisis in the last decade. Alterations such as exchange rates fluctuations, bankruptcy of unorganized institution...

The rhetoric of Islamic banking – exemplified in this opening quote by one of the industry’s most prominent pioneers – is derived from its historical evolution as a model of two-tier silent partnership. In fact, Islamic banks have mimicked conventional bank assets – from receivables to bonds, with credit sale and lease-backed debt instruments. In the meantime, Islamic banks have continued to re...

This study aimed to promote the use of mobile transaction services and summarize 13 service items affecting mobile banking transactions, functional programs, and accessibility programs. Furthermore, this study designed questionnaire using ANP (the Analytic Network Process). Three experts from the financial industry and academia with more than five years of working experience were invited to com...

Conditions and challenges in the country's banking industry including the increasing intensity of competition in this industry and the quality of services have compounded the importance of assessing the current situation of the internal control systems and its role in increasing the quality of services. It should also be more vital to recognize the drawbacks in order to find new strategies to m...

banks' major responsibility, as the largest financial intermediaries, is to provide and allocate resources. this activity has its own risks which cause banks to seek ways of preventing or transferring them to other places. islamic banks as substitutes of conventional banks in islamic countries have, in their turn, faced similar risks. in regard to new evolutions in banking industry and man...

Internet banking is changing the banking industry, having the major effects on banking relationships. Banking is now no longer confined to the branches were one has to approach the branch in person, to withdraw cash or deposit a cheque or request a statement of accounts. In true Internet banking, any inquiry or transaction is processed online without any reference to the branch (anywhere bankin...