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TY - JOUR
T1 - A survival analysis of Islamic and conventional banks
AU - Pappas, Vasileios
AU - Ongena, Steven
AU - Izzeldin, Marwan
AU - Fuertes, Ana-Maria
N1 - The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10693-016-0239-0
PY - 2017/4/30
Y1 - 2017/4/30
N2 - Are Islamic banks inherently more stable than conventional banks? We address this question by applying a survival analysis based on the Cox proportional hazard model to a comprehensive sample of 421 banks in 20 Middle and Far Eastern countries from 1995 to 2010. By comparing the failure risk for both bank types, we find that Islamic banks have a significantly lower risk of failure than that of their conventional peers. This lower risk is based both unconditionally and conditionally on bank-specific (microeconomic) variables as well as macroeconomic and market structure variables. Our findings indicate that the design and implementation of early warning systems for bank failure should recognize the distinct risk profiles of the two bank types.
AB - Are Islamic banks inherently more stable than conventional banks? We address this question by applying a survival analysis based on the Cox proportional hazard model to a comprehensive sample of 421 banks in 20 Middle and Far Eastern countries from 1995 to 2010. By comparing the failure risk for both bank types, we find that Islamic banks have a significantly lower risk of failure than that of their conventional peers. This lower risk is based both unconditionally and conditionally on bank-specific (microeconomic) variables as well as macroeconomic and market structure variables. Our findings indicate that the design and implementation of early warning systems for bank failure should recognize the distinct risk profiles of the two bank types.
KW - Islamic banks
KW - Failure risk
KW - Survival Analysis
KW - Financial intermediation
U2 - 10.1007/s10693-016-0239-0
DO - 10.1007/s10693-016-0239-0
M3 - Journal article
VL - 51
SP - 221
EP - 256
JO - Journal of Financial Services Research
JF - Journal of Financial Services Research
SN - 0920-8550
IS - 2
ER -