Martin Cihak

TL;DR: In this paper, the relative financial strength of Islamic banks is assessed empirically based on evidence covering individual Islamic and commercial banks in 18 banking systems with a substantial presence of Islamic banking.

TL;DR: The Global Financial Development Database (GFDB) as discussed by the authors is a dataset of financial system characteristics for 205 economies from 1960 to 2010, which includes measures of the size of financial institutions and markets (financial depth), degree to which individuals can and do use financial services (access), efficiency of financial intermediaries and markets in intermediating resources and facilitating financial transactions (efficiency), and stability of financial institution and markets.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relative financial strength of Islamic banks is assessed empirically based on evidence covering individual Islamic and commercial banks in 19 banking systems with a substantial presence of Islamic banking.

TL;DR: Using the Panzar and Rosse H-statistic as a measure of competition in 45 countries, the authors found that more competitive banking systems are less prone to experience a systemic crisis and exhibit increased time to crisis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors re-examine financial deepening, focusing on what emerging markets can learn from the advanced economy experience, and find that gains for growth and stability from financial deepening remain large for most emerging markets, but there are limits on size and speed.