Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- About the Editors -- Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. This Issue -- 3. Future Directions -- References -- Chapter 1: Investigating International Portfolio Diversification Opportunities for the Asian Islamic Stock Market Investors -- 1....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate proprietary data from customers of a Southern Louisiana credit union. It analyzes the factors that contribute to an accelerated failure time (AFT) using information from customers’ credit applications as well as information provided in...

Purpose: This paper reviews economic and finance research on Islamic investments. In the course of our review, we focus on the following issues: the performance of Islamic stock indexes, Islamic finance–growth nexus and Islamic real-estate investment trust market. Design/methodology/approach:...