Amid growing concern over sustainability issues, there is increasing demand to incorporate environmental and social issues into assessments of credit risk, the possibility of loss resulting from a borrower’s failure to meet their financial obligations. In this paper, we sought to identify...

The paper evaluates response asymmetries in the international linkage of five founding members of ASEAN, namely, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. More specifically, we assess whether these markets react differently to market upturns and market downturns of two...

According to proponents of Gold Dinar particularly Meera and Aziz (2002), termed as Dinarists’, the fiat monetary system is inherently unstable. In providing an empirical perspective on this contention, this paper investigates monetary dynamics of a Muslim economy, Malaysia. To this end, the...

Faced with a persistent pandemic, investors are concerned about portfolio diversification. While the literature on COVID-19 has evolved impressively, limited work remains on diversification opportunities. We contribute to the literature by exploring the volatility and co-movement of different...

Risk Sharing is the core of the Islamic finance, the closest modern equivalent being equity investments. Through the decades of Islamic Finance development scholars have stressed on equity as the most beneficial financial mechanism while most accept modern joint-stock companies as quasi Mush...

Using an event study approach, we investigate the impact of FTX, BlockFi, and the Genesis collapses on the top ten cryptos in terms of market capitalization. Regarding the impact of the FTX collapse, the analysis of aggregate cryptocurrencies indicates negative abnormal returns leading to the...

Amid growing concern over sustainability issues, there is increasing demand to incorporate environmental and social issues into assessments of credit risk, the possibility of loss resulting from a borrower's failure to meet their financial obligations. In this paper, we sought to identify...