The current evaluation of Islamic Banks performance uses the conventional measurs, which is not unacceptable as the current Islamic Banks’ structure is mainly equal of its conventional counterparts in the sense that they are developed in the frame of business entity, thus businessbased...

This study tries to measure the effect of risk sharing in adding value to Islamic banks. In particular, this study is important to accurately gauging the impact of Islamic banking sector on the real economy. The adoption of risk sharing modes of contracts by Islamic bank as intermediary would...

The slow growth of acceptance is a major barrier to small-scale renewable energy development. This study examines the determinants of acceptance of small-scale renewable energy in Malaysia. The research model for this study was developed based on the theory of planned behaviour, the technology...

This study provides new evidence on the role of financial development in accounting for economic growth. To derive feasible policy implications, we estimate not only unbalanced panel regressions with period fixed effects, but also variance decompositions of annual GDP growth rates to examine...

This study extends the of-balance sheet (OBS) banking literature to thrift OBS activities by empirically examining the motivation for thrift institutions to engage in various OBS activities, and to shed light on the risk-based capital requirement of thrift OBS activities. This is the first known...

This paper presents an analysis of the impact of ownership structure and regulation on the risk-taking behavior of commercial banks and savings and loans. Our work differs from previous efforts in that we measure risk in terms of an institution's asset or business risk, using the Ronn-Verma...

This paper investigates the impact of the Financial Services Modernization Act (FSMA) of 1999 on the insurance industry. We identify three events that have a differential impact across the business lines of the insurance industry. The overall impact of the FSMA across the business lines in the...

In an efficient market, technical analysis cannot earn abnormal returns. Technical strategies are inferior to a buy and hold strategy since they typically churn investor accounts. Nonetheless, technical analysis appears to thrive. The purpose of this paper is to explain why technical analysis...

Existing literature has focused attention on the impact of Basle I and similar capital requirement regulations on developed countries where such regulations were found to be effective in increasing capital ratios and reducing portfolio credit risk of commercial banks. In the present study, we...