Islamic banking is consistent with Islamic law and guided by Islamic economics. They are prohibited from charging or paying interest, and can operate only on the basis of the profit-sharing arrangements. Islamic banking has been gaining momentum on a global scale for the last 30 years. It is...

Released by Policy Uncertainty, the economic policy uncertainty (EPU) index is built on newspaper reports that contribute to uncertain conditions. The present study examines the impact of the EPU index on stock price indices on a selected group of countries. Variations in stock price indices are...

The least squares (LS) estimator suffers from signicant downward bias in autoregressive models that include an intercept. By construction, the LS estimator yields the best in-sample fit among a class of linear estimators notwithstanding its bias. Then, why do we need to correct for the bias? To...

This paper estimates exchange rate sensitivity of US cotton imports for three textile producers with floating or regularly adjusting exchange rates since the 1970s, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Thailand. The cotton import market model includes mill use, US production cost, and an alternate supply....

This paper estimates exchange rate sensitivity since the 1970s of US cotton exports to three textile producers with floating or regularly adjusting exchange rates: Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Thailand. The import market model includes mill use, US production cost, an alternate supply, and the...

This paper empirically investigates cointegrating relation between housing prices and economic fundamental variables in the US housing market. Employing simple yet rigorous econometric techniques, the present paper finds strong evidence in favor of cointegrating relations in most US states when...