Purpose: To overcome the deficiencies of Basel II and to respond great depression 2008, III is designed lower default risk banks. However, unique business model capital structure Islamic banks ignored at this point. A common banking regulation for two different types may have a impact on profitability cost efficiency these types. In regard, we address question relative performance both in respo...

The time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining risk management has not been uppermost on the Islamic banking sector’s agenda in recent years. It is crucial for Islamic banks (IBs) to have comprehensive risk management framework as there is growing realization among IBs that sustainable growth critically depends on the development of a comprehensive risk management framework. Islamic b...

I would like to focus on two issues: capital inflows, which is a very relevant issue for emerging market economies, and the recent agreement of the Basel Committee on Banking Regulation. For this purpose I will start with a brief review of some facts regarding capital inflows. Then I will discuss the policy toolkit to deal with them. I will take a look from a macro perspective and then from the...

In an effort to bolster soundness standards in banking, the 2006 international regulatory agreement of Basel II requires globally active banks to include operational risk in estimating regulatory and economic capital to be held against major types of risk. This paper discusses practical issues faced by a bank in designing and implementing an operational risk capital model. Focusing on the use o...

The neighbouring cantons Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft had introduced different fluoridation schemes for caries prevention: Basel-Stadt provided drinking water fluoridated at 0.8-1 ppm F since 1962, while Basel-Landschaft introduced fluoridated domestic salt (250 ppm F since 1983). Representative samples of 12-year-old schoolchildren (6th-graders) were studied to evaluate the prevalence of (...

Basel III, regulating the solvency of banks, is to be fully implemented by 2027 while Solvency III directed at insurers being prepared. In view past experience, it will closely modelled after III. This raises two questions. (i) Will and more successful than their predecessors? (ii) Is appropriate continue banks in same way? The first question motivated an earlier finding that I II risked induci...