Rifat Fariha, Md. Mukarrom Hossain, Ratan Ghosh
Purpose This study is designed and directed to analyze the effect of board characteristics and audit committee attributes on the firm performance of publicly listed commercial banks of Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach Thirty publicly listed commercial banks of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) have ...
Md. Mamunur Rashid
Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the mediating role of corporate board characteristics in the relationship between ownership structure and firm performance in the listed public limited companies of Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach The study analyzed 527 annual reports of listed...
Habib Ahmed
The severity of the current financial crisis has shaken the foundations of the capitalist financial system and has led to the search for ideas and solutions. This paper identifies the failure of risk mitigation at different levels as the main cause of the crisis. While following the principles of Is...
Rubana Mahjabeen
Abdul Rahim, Abdul Rahim Abdul Rahman
IntroductionMicrofinance means "programme that extend small loans to very poor people for self employment projects that generate income in allowing them to take care of themselves and their families" (Microcredit Summit, 1997).The World Bank has recognized microfinance programme as an approach to ad...
Mohammad Morshedur Rahman, Md. Kowsar Hamid, Md Abdul Mannan Khan
This study attempts to investigate capital strength, credit risk, ownership structure, bank size, non-interest income, cost efficiency, off-balance sheet activities, liquidity as potential bank specific determinants as well as growth in gross domestic products, inflation as potential macroeconomic d...
Md. Shahidul Islam, Shin‐Ichi Nishiyama
This paper studies the determinants of net interest margins of banks (NIMs) in four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan) in the period 1997–2012 using panel data of 230 banks. The study is in line of Ho–Saunders (1981) dealership model and its later expansions but extended t...
Bipasha Barua, Suborna Barua
The COVID-19 pandemic is damaging economies across the world, including financial markets and institutions in all possible dimensions. For banks in particular, the pandemic generates multifaceted crises, mostly through increases in default rates. This is likely to be worse in developing economies wi...
Afzalur Rashid
Mamta Banu Chowdhury
Nancy J. Davis, Robert V. Robinson
The authors test two theories linking religion and economic beliefs in predominantly Muslim nations using data from national surveys of Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. Moral Cosmology theory posits that because the religiously orthodox are theologically com...
Nimrah Karim, Michael Tarazi, Xavier Reille
An estimated 72 percent of people living in Muslim-majority countries do not use formal financial services. Even when financial services are available, some people view conventional products as incompatible with the financial principles set forth in Islamic law. In recent years, some microfinance in...
Md. Bokhtiar Hasan, Masnun Mahi, M. Kabir Hassan, Abul Bashar Bhuiyan
We empirically explore the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on Islamic and conventional stock markets from a global perspective. We also explore the co-movement between Islamic and conventional stock markets. Two comparable pairs of conventional and Islamic stock indices – Dow Jones Index and FTSE In...
Chen Zhixia, Md. Miraj Hossen, Sayed Sami Muzafary, Mareum Begum
The concept of green banking is becoming a buzzword in the financial and banking sector and in the common people of the world over the last few decades. This paper tries to highlight the present status of green banking practice, progress, and different green initiatives taken by the Bangladeshi bank...
Sudipta Bose, Amitav Saha, Habib Zaman Khan, Shajul Islam