Financial stability of Islamic and conventional banks in Saudi Arabia: Evidence using pooled and panel models

Ghassan, Hassan B. and Taher, Farid B. (2012): Financial stability of Islamic and conventional banks in Saudi Arabia: Evidence using pooled and panel models. Published in: , Vol. 2, No. Gerlach Press (2015): pp. 81-114.

Abstract

Financial crises are strongly related to financial and banking systems, given the international financial liberalization market, where a local financial system is no longer isolated from changes in the global system. In the last decade of the twentieth century, Islamic banks were first established and have had a growing role in the international financial system since then. CIBAFI (2010) indicates that total world Islamic finance had reached around one trillion US dollars at the end of 2009. During the last financial crisis (2007-2009) a large number of conventional banks around the world have announced bankruptcy (140 U.S. Banks...

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• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Islamic Banks; Financial Crisis; Financial Stability; Z-score Model; Saudi Arabia.
• Subjects: G - Financial Economics > G2 - Financial Institutions and Services; P - Economic Systems > P4 - Other Economic Systems

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