Political transition and bank performance: How important was the Arab Spring?

Employs bank-level data for 2000-2012 to examine the impact of Arab Spring on MENA banks. * The impact of the Arab Spring is to lower profitability and raise bank risk. * There appears to be no differential effect of the political conflict on the performance and stability of Islamic banks. * There appears to be limited evidence of any contemporaneous impact of the Arab Spring on banks. * Although the Arab Spring did not affect loan behavior, lending rates increased. Using data for 2000-2012, the article utilizes the natural experiment of the Arab Spring to examine its impact on the risk and re... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Ghosh, Saibal
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Reihe/Periodikum: Journal of comparative economics
Verlag/Hrsg.: Amsterdam, Elsevier
Sprache: Englisch
ISSN: 0147-5967
Weitere Identifikatoren: doi: 10.1016/j.jce.2015.02.001
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/olc-benelux-197485681X
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Link(s) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2015.02.001
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2015.02.001