This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16...

This paper aims to develop an Islamic intertemporal model of the current account based on the prevailing theoretical and empirical literature of PVMCA (Obstfeld and Rogoff 1996, Cerrato et al. 2014). The proposed model is based on the budget constraint of present and future consumption, which...

This paper aims to develop an Islamic intertemporal model of the current account based on the prevailing theoretical and empirical literature of PVMCA (Obstfeld and Rogoff 1996, Cerrato et al. 2014). The proposed model is based on the budget constraint of the present and future consumption,...

This paper offers an explanation for choice overload based on reference-dependent preferences. Consumers construct an ideal object that combines the best attributes of all objects in their choice set, and use this as a reference point. When the choice set expands, it is more likely to find a...

This paper aims to develop an Islamic intertemporal model of the current account based on the prevailing theoretical and empirical literature of PVMCA (Obstfeld and Rogoff 1996, Cerrato et al. 2014). The proposed model is based on the budget constraint of the present and future consumption,...

Behavioral economics, notably developed by Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky and Richard Thaler, has found consistent and pervasive anomalies in common people’s daily behaviors. This paper has employed the concepts in traditional economics (e.g., choice, relative price, and opportunity cost) to...

This paper aims to develop an Islamic intertemporal model of the current account based on the prevailing theoretical and empirical literature of PVMCA (Obstfeld and Rogoff 1996, Cerrato et al. 2014). The proposed model is based on the budget constraint of the present and future consumption,...

Individuals' demands for financial instruments are derived from a generalized Fisherian intertemporal consumption model. These are expressed in terms of the future value of the borrowing and lending in the initial period of an arbitrary time horizon, and are dependent on their current period...

The study explores the application of demand theory in studying consumer spending behaviour and policy analysis, with a focus on food demand and consumption patterns. It reviews various demand function systems and introduces the differential approach as a superior method for modelling demand....

This paper attempts a broad appraisal of the literature on macro consumption function in Islamic economics. It starts with a brief look at the microelements of the concept and clears several cobwebs concerning wants and needs, scarcity of resources, the basket of goods, and the efficacy of...