This article attempts to shed light on the impact of oil prices, investor sentiment, and conventional index on 11 Islamic indices, particularly during the subprime financial crisis and the oil crisis. Empirical evidence suggests that the Malaysian and Indonesian Islamic indices are very much...

The current paper examines the volatility parameters of thirteen stock markets returns (mature and emerging) by GARCH models in order to see its effects on the potential gains of international diversification. Then, we identify the effects of the volatilities on the correlation between...

This article explores the relation between oil market and the financial stocks market. Particularly, this article examines the impact of oil price shocks on stock markets returns and volatilities for large set of oil importing and exporting countries over 1997:1–2009:08 period. Using VAR...

This paper investigates the volatility spillover and the dynamic correlation between crude oil and stock index returns. Monthly returns from January 1997 to December 2010 of the crude oil, oil-importing and oil-exporting stock indices are analysed using three multivariate GARCH specifications...

This paper analyses the volatility spillover and the dynamic correlation between liquidity risks factors in Tunisian banks over 1990:1 2011:12. Based on the BEKK-GARCH estimation results, we find a significant volatility spillover between deposit and loan to economy and between securities...

This paper aims to conduct a comparative analysis of the evolution of financial systems in emerging countries and / or development. This comparative analysis is performed through the use of various techniques namely the principal component analysis and hierarchical clustering on a sample of 52...

This paper highlights the relevant role of the quality of institutions in maintaining banking stability. Poor institutions constitute the key determinants in explaining the emergence of banking crises. An empirical study of 52 emerging and / or developing countries from 1996 to 2009 finds that...

In recent years, studying stock markets using multi-agent based models has grow into an important research area due to the fact that this line of attack replicates the nature of the financial market where varied traders with a mixture of expectations and diverse points of rationality network...

This paper aims to conduct a comparative analysis of the financial systems evolution in emerging and / or developing after significant financial changes. This comparative analysis was performed by the calcul of a composite financial development indicator on a sample of 52 emerging and / or...

R&D treatment could be influenced by earnings management purposes due to the flexibility allowed in the R&D accounting standards. This paper attempts to determine whether discretionary R&D treatments are motivated by financial performance or can be constrained by board independence. The study is...