• Democracy and Banking Stability: Is the Relationship U-Shaped? 

      Ben Ali, Mohamed Sami; Ben Mim, Sami ( Springer , 2022 , Article)
      This study addresses the impact of democracy on the stability of the banking system for a sample of 114 countries over the period 2000-2017. Our findings offer strong evidence for a U-shaped relationship between democracy ...
    • How does corruption undermine banking stability? A threshold nonlinear framework 

      Ben Ali, Mohamed Sami; Fhima, Fredj; Nouira, Ridha ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)
      This study assesses the effect of corruption on the occurrence of banking crises for a sample of 38 countries over the period 2000-2017. We consider both the direct and the indirect channels through which corruption might ...