This study examines the impact of the recent financial crisis on the capital structure decision of UK, French and German firms. The results show that overall leverage ratios increase from pre-crisis (2006 and 2007) to crisis (2008 and 2009) years and then decrease in the post-crisis (2010 and...

This study examines the impact of the recent financial crisis on the capital structure decision of UK, French and German firms. The results show that overall leverage ratios increase from pre-crisis (2006 and 2007) to crisis (2008 and 2009) years and then decrease in the post-crisis (2010 and...

A recent development in financial markets is the creation of Shari'ah compliant stock universes. Shari'ah compliant stock universe is featured as socially responsible investments, less levered, and more reflective of the real sector. This study is conducted to understand and document the...

This study is conducted to understand and document the long as well as short-run equilibrium among important macroeconomic indicators and Equity markets (including Islamic and conventional) in post Shari'ah-screening era in Pakistan. We have included seven macroeconomic variables—inflation,...

Housing is considered the basic necessity of human being and its shortage is a major problem worldwide especially in less developed countries including Pakistan. Recently the commercial banks in Pakistan have started looking for housing finance. In addition to conventional banks Islamic banks...

Islamic Banking is growing at a rapid speed and has showed unprecedented growth and expansion in last two decades in spite of mismatching of existing financial framework and business practices. By the end of 2012 volume of assets under Islamic finance has reached to US $ 1,460 Billion with...

This study is conducted to understand and document the long as well as short-run equilibrium among important macroeconomic indicators and Equity markets (including Islamic and conventional) in post Shari'ah-screening era in Pakistan. We have included seven macroeconomic variables—inflation,...