Using partial least square discriminant analysis to distinguish between Islamic and conventional banks in the MENA region

The deterioration of bank profitability poses a threat not only to the interests of consumers and internal staff members but also affects investors who may equally suffer from significant financial losses. It is important to establish an effective system which assists investors in their investment choices. In prior literature, traditional models have been developed, but achieved short‐term performances such as logistic regression and discriminant analysis. This paper applies a partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS‐DA) to distinguish between conventional and Islamic banks in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region based on the financial information for the period 2005–2011. This method can successfully identify the non‐linearity and correlations between financial indicators. The results demonstrate superior performance of the proposed method. On one hand, our model can select all financial ratios to distinguish between banks and at the same time identify the most important variables in the distinction process. On the other hand, the proposed model has high levels in terms of accuracy and stability.     

绿色信贷发展对商业银行财务绩效影响的实证研究

基于2007—2020年商业银行财务数据,构建多期DID模型,从规模效应、风险结构效应、成本收入效应分析绿色信贷对商业银行财务绩效的影响路径,并检验绿色信贷对银行财务绩效的异质性影响。实证结果表明：绿色信贷对商业银行财务绩效存在直接负向影响与间接正向影响,且综合影响具有异质性,对国有银行以及城市商业银行具有负的政策效应,对股份制商业银行不具备显著的政策效应;绿色信贷业务对银行企业价值的影响机制中规模效应、成本收入效应为主要影响路径。     

国有商业银行人力资本产权与公司治理结构设计

国有商业银行人力资本产权的作用日益突出,人力资本产权直接影响国有商业银行公司治理结构。要充分肯定商业银行公司治理结构发展的“路径依赖”特征,在原有制度的运行基础上充分体现商业银行的特殊性——人力资本产权,对现有公司治理结构进行渐近式的边际调整,最终在引入人力资本产权的基础上形成国有商业银行公司治理结构设计。     

城市商业银行发展现状、国际经验与改革方向

城市商业银行作为国内金融业的小字辈,一直生存在国有商业银行和股份制商业银行的夹缝之中。经过多年的发展,城商行已经取得了不俗的成绩,宁波银行、南京银行和北京银行还先后上市融资,但是部分城商行尤其是二线城市的城商行发展仍然面临重重困境,在金融开放的大背景下,城商行不仅要面对国有商业银行和股份制商业银行的挤压,而且还要应对来自外资银行的挑战,部分城商行已经通过重组改造扩充资本金,获得不错的发展,但此类改造也存在不少问题。本文拟从城商行的发展现状出发分析其发展所面临问题及深层次原因,并借鉴国外中小金融机构发展经验对城商行的重组和改革方向提出见解。     

商业银行金融服务创新：基于客户满意视角

当前国内外最能赢得竞争优势的商业银行是那些市场营销最成功的银行,而追求客户满意是现代商业银行金融服务创新的重要目标。本文对客户满意的金融服务创新的深刻内涵进行了揭示,对我国商业银行的客户满意度以及当前我国商业银行金融服务创新中存在的缺点作以分析,在此基础上对商业银行客户满意的金融服务创新策略进行深入探讨。     

基于DEA-Tobit二阶段法的城市商业银行效率评价——以中部六省9家城市商业银行为例

针对我国城市商业银行效率评价方法单一且区域化研究较少的问题,利用数据包络分析超效率模型对中部六省城市商业银行经营效率进行了评价,对其结果进行了进一步的投影分析,并在此基础上,运用Tobit模型分析了银行效率的影响因素。实证结果表明,人均营业费用和存贷比与银行经营效率成负相关,资本充足率与银行经营效率成正相关。     

Selectivity and Transparency in Social Banking: Evidence from Europe

How do social banks signal their social commitment to motivated funders? We hypothesize that two main channels are used: selectivity and transparency. We test these predictions using a rich dataset comprising balancesheet information on 5,000 European banks over the period from 1998 to 2013. The results suggest that social screening leads social banks to higher project selectivity compared to mainstream banks. Social banks also tend to be more transparent than other banks. However, combining selectivity and transparency can result in excess liquidity. Overall, the empirical findings not only confirm our theoretical hypotheses, but also raise challenging issues regarding the management of social banks.     

Financial innovation,systematic risk and commercial banks’ stability in China: theory and evidence

We are dedicated to revealing the impacts of financial innovation and systematic risk on commercial banks’ stability in China, both theoretically and empirically. We established a theoretical model and derived a theoretical mechanism from this model revealing two distinctive patterns of the impacts determined by the profitability of financial derivatives: the impacts of financial innovation and systematic risk on banks’ stability in China are linear under the circumstances of a positive expected risk premium of financial derivatives; conversely, the impacts can be linear, U-shaped or cubic when the expected risk premium is negative. We make three propositions to analyse the patterns and conditions of these impacts in detail. In the empirical analysis, we do not focus only on the banking industry but also on individual commercial banks. The empirical results demonstrate that the impact of financial innovation on both the banking industry’s and most individual commercial banks’ stability are U-shaped, and the impact of systematic risk on the banking industry’s and on only one commercial bank’s stability are significantly linear, which confirms certain conditions mentioned in the theoretical propositions. Finally, the study’s conclusions are presented, and the contributions of the article to future study are also mentioned.     

Shari’ah supervision,corporate governance and performance: Conventional vs. Islamic banks

The performance and accountability of boards of directors and effectiveness of governance mechanisms continue to be a matter of concern. Focusing on differences between conventional banks and Islamic banks, we examine the effect of (i) Shari’ah supervision boards, (ii) board structure and (iii) CEO-power on performance during the period 2005–2011. We find Shari’ah supervision boards positively impact on Islamic banks’ performance when they perform a supervisory role, but the impact is negligible when they have only an advisory role. The effect of board structure (board size and board independence) and CEO power (CEO-chair duality and internally recruited CEO) on the performance of Islamic banks is overall negative. Our findings provide support for the positive contribution of Shari’ah supervision boards but also emphasize the need for enforcement and regulatory mechanism for them to be more effective.     

Eating at the limits: Barriers to the emergence of social enterprise initiatives in the Australian emergency food relief sector

This article explores the absence of social enterprise responses to food insecurity in Australia. Continued growth in demand from chronically food insecure consumers and criticism of the dominant food bank model of gifted food support has led to the development of ‘community supermarkets’ that charge consumers for donated food in countries including Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Italy, but not in Australia. This research investigates barriers to the development of community supermarkets in Australia through in-depth interviews with senior staff within seven organizations involved in the food relief supply chain, as well as a pilot survey of 38 food insecure consumers. The results of this research are analyzed through the lens of ‘voluntary failure’ theory and highlight systemic barriers to the reach of social enterprise as a mechanism for addressing food insecurity.