There is no doubt that the rate at which sukuk financing has been accepted in different jurisdictions outside the usual Muslim-majority countries is encouraging. This seemingly considerable feat comes with much responsibility and a proactive role for Shar_‘ah scholars and regulators. The...

Shar ah compliance is one of the important legal and fiduciary duties of Islamic banks. Its importance is growing in the wake of the challenging business environment and the increasing needs for innovative products and instruments faced by Islamic banks. The present paper seeks to analyze the...

Purpose – This research aims to explore the theoretical nature of salam contract in depth, the extent of its use in the banking arena of Malaysia and to test the theoretical feasibility of its future application by the Islamic banks in Malaysia by suggesting an Islamic banking product...

The paper examines the size effect reversal in the USA over the period 1970-1999, using data for the ten size deciles in the CRSP tapes during this 40-year period. Betas for small-firm portfolios increase as the return interval analysed increases, and are lower than large-firm portfolios for...

This article empirically examines the time-varying risk return relationship and the impact of institutional factors such as circuit breaker on volatility for the emerging equity market of Bangladesh [namely The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE)] using daily and weekly stock returns. The DSE equity...

We find a statistically significant increase in adjusted correlation between portfolio returns during the Russian financial crisis period, especially during the peak of the crisis. We also find that commercial bank and Savings & Loan Institutions (S&L) portfolios lost market value significantly...