The present paper studies the financial performance of Islamic and conventional indexes for three major regions: Europe, the USA and the World. The study covers the period 2000-2011, enabling us to capture the impact of the recent global financial crisis. To this end, we computed different...

This paper studies the speculative efficiency of the aluminum contract traded in the London Metal Exchange over the last three decades. We investigate both short and long-run efficiency using linear and nonlinear cointegration approaches and Error Correction Models (ECM). Our findings point out...