Abstract This study assesses the differences between Islamic and conventional bank’s productivity. Earlier studies on bank productivity focused banks, but few have been done banks. Therefore, present attempts to close gap in literature by investigating of banks context Middle East, Southeast Asia South regions. The sample is comprised 385 (66 319 banks) from 18 countries with data observations ...

Research background: The innovation in Shar??ah-compliant banking products has resulted the rapidly increasing size of assets Islamic banks worldwide. such have been growing twice as fast those conventional banks. do not depend on interest, speculation, or complex derivatives stemming from operations. Instead, their actions respect profit/risk sharing, and clarity contract are consistent with S...