Religious entrenchment and agency costs

  • Tasawar Nawaz*
  • , Nader Shahzad Virk
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The entrenchment effects of 20 prominent Shariah scholars show an increase in the agency costs for the Islamic banks in our study. This supports the notion that managers may provide concessions to external non-shareholding stakeholders to pursue their personal agendas.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)83-86
Number of pages4
JournalEconomics Letters
Volume179
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2019
Externally publishedYes

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Publisher Copyright:
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Keywords

  • Agency costs
  • Entrenchment
  • Islamic banks
  • Non-shareholding stakeholders
  • Shariah scholars

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Finance
  • Economics and Econometrics

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