...Sara Yasin; Yousef Damra; Hussein A. Hassan Al-Tamimi; Mohamed Albaity Purpose This paper examined the impact of capital structure ( DR ) and uncertainty ( WUI ) on bank performance in the Middle East and North Africa ( MENA ) region. In addition, it examined whether Islamic banks’ performance...

... 2024 07 11 2024 07 11 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Ijara contingent convertible contract Conversion rate Cox-Ingersoll-Ross stochastic process Risk management Capital structure Islamic financial...

...Abdullah Alsaadi Purpose This study aims to examine how capital structure influences earnings management for firms in the Saudi market, which is influenced by an Islamic environment that discourages excessive borrowing. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a data set that covers...

...Saeed Akbar; Shehzad Khan; Zahoor Ul Haq; Muhammad Ibrahim Khan Purpose This study aims to compare capital structure determinants' effect on the leverage levels of Shariah-compliant (SC) and noncompliant (NC) firms in Pakistan. This study also estimates and compares the capital structure...

... of this study is to investigate the effect of the number of bank relationships as a firm-specific determinant of capital structure and to discuss its impact on the banking sector. Design/methodology/approach A two-step system generalized method of the moments estimation method is used in this study...

...Moncef Guizani; Ahdi Noomen Ajmi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the basic premises according to the pecking order theory (POT) provide an explanation for the capital structure mix of firms operating under Islamic principles. Design/methodology/approach Pooled ordinary...

...Shoaib Khan; Usman Bashir; Md. Saiful Islam Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the most important factors that affect the capital structure of commercial banks in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Design/methodology/approach This study uses annual data of 11 Saudi commercial...

...Kaouther Toumi Purpose The paper aims to investigate whether the Islamic banks (IBs) and the conventional banks (CBs) could be distinguished from one another on the basis of their capital structure, profitability and their respective determinants with using a multivariate statistical method...

.... Ho can be contacted at: catherine@salam.uitm.edu.my 23 08 2017 28 11 2017 12 02 2018 16 05 2018 02 01 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Firm performance Capital structure Firm size...

...Nadeem Ahmed Sheikh; Muhammad Azeem Qureshi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how conventional and Islamic commercial banks in Pakistan choose their capital structure and what are the most significant factors that affect their choice of capital structure. Design/methodology...

...Yomna Abdulla Purpose This paper aims to investigate the determinants of capital structure for non-financial listed firms in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the period 2004-2010. The contradiction between the different capital structure theories, limited literature on UAE and its distinctive...

...Omar Farooq Purpose – This paper aims to document how does ownership concentration, a proxy for agency conflicts, affect capital structure of firms in emerging markets. Agency relationship between insiders and outsiders has the potential to influence corporate decision-making which, in turn...

...Theresa Gunn; Joshua Shackman Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of the Muslim religion on firm capital structure. Design/methodology/approach – The authors compare financing patterns in Muslim versus non-Muslim countries using 658 firms in 16 countries covering...

...Nur Azura B.T. Sanusi Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine the impact of wealth tax (zakat) and corporate tax (CT) on the firm's capital structure. The pioneering works of capital structure were introduced by Modgliani and Miller (1958). Subsequently, these studies were extended...

... and conventional finance. The possibilities with regard to an all-equity capital structure depend critically on the concept of property ownership. In particular, property law determines the scope of variety in debt-free capital structure. This leads to a fork in the analytical road, because there are two...