New Articles – Finance

Twenty years of efficiency research in Czech and Slovak banking – A bibliometric analysis

Martin Boďa, Emília Zimková, Anton Karaka

The article is a survey of 44 empirical studies that applied frontier techniques in analyzing efficiency of Czech and Slovak commercial banks in a hope to summarize the state of the art of efficiency research in Czech and Slovak banking. A sample of 44 journal articles was extracted from the Web of Science™ database, and a bibliometric analysis was conducted to identify the most active authors and most influential works to establish mutual relationships between them and to sketch the main…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2025-1-009 more

The impact of Fintech on bank development: A meta-analysis investigation

Wei Wang, Songze Guan, Juan Li, Yuefei Tang, Tianyu He

To test whether the results of the empirical literature on bank Fintech are affected by the characteristics of specific research, the paper selects existing high-quality empirical literature to conduct a meta-analysis. It finds that the empirical estimation results conducted across various studies are influenced significantly by factors such as sample interval, estimation methods, measurement indicators for Fintech and bank development, and the inverse of the model count. Specifically, the…

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Profitability determinants of cooperative Islamic insurance companies

Atila Savai, Milos Pjanic, Mirela Mitrasevic, Nada Milenkovic

The aim of the paper is to investigate the profitability determinants of cooperative insurance companies in Saudi Arabia. The mentioned insurance companies conduct business activities on the largest Islamic insurance market in the world, which has a growing demand for insurance as an instrument of risk management and a meaningful potential for further growth. A particular motive for conducting this research was the fact that these companies have common characteristics with mutual insurance…

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The relationship between implicit moral hazard, corporate governance, and bank lending behavior

Chiao-Ming Li, Hsu Chi Wang, Chun-Hsin Chou, Joe-Ming Lee

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) development has indeed changed the original economic operation status through diversified methods. The banking industry, especially under the guidance of ESG, reminds the banking industry that it should focus on regulatory conditions such as lending objects with ESG operating characteristics. In terms of corporate governance, the banking industry needs to adopt high self-management standards for business development. This paper uses the panel…

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Do women get into less debt? Gendered local political performance in the EU

Lenka Malicka, Jana Vancova, Daniela Hadacova, Dominika Juskova

Gender differences in local financial management are, according to empirical grounds, a reality that predetermines differences in the fiscal performance of municipalities led by women and men. The position of women leaders in public administration and their influence on sources of income, the nature of expenses, and the level of indebtedness have been a popular research issue in recent years, but it includes an almost unexplored gender dimension that needs deeper analysis. For this reason, the…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-4-010 more