The emergence of Covid-19 in late 2019 rapidly shattered the Asia-Pacific region (APR), a bastion of economic dynamism, and it became the epicenter of the global health crisis. This unprecedented pandemic not only triggered a public health catastrophe but also unleashed a financial storm,...

The high credit card interest rates in Turkey attracted considerable attention in recent years to regulate the Turkish credit card industry. Before any regulation decision taken, there needs to be better conceptualization and analysis of the Turkish credit card market. This paper sheds some...

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Islamic equities in leading Islamic capital markets. We investigate whether Islamic equities provide diversification benefits in a time of the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, we use daily data spanning from 01 January 2017 to 22 October 2021 and employ the...