Bitar, Mohammad
[Verfasser:in]
;
Saad, Wadad
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Benlemlih, Mohammed
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
Anmerkungen:
In: Economic Systems, Forthcoming
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments December 18, 2015 erstellt
Beschreibung:
This paper benefits from various risk- and non-risk-based regulatory capital ratios and examines their impact on bank risk and performance in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Our findings suggest that compliance with Basel capital requirements enhances bank protection against risk, and improves efficiency and profitability. The impact of capital requirements on bank performance is more pronounced for too-big-to-fail banks, banks in periods of crises and banks in countries with good governance. The results are also robust when controlling for the Arab Spring transition period. Finally, endogeneity checks, alternative risk and performance measures, a principal component analysis and other estimation techniques confirm findings