Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the return and dividend characteristics of two different types of Malaysian real estate investment trust (REIT) series, namely, conventional and Islamic, against macroeconomic variables over the period 2011-2017....

The present study examines the impact of cultural and religious festivals on the trading behavior of a sample of stocks listed on the five emerging Asian markets: Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan, over the years 1991-2011. I investigate the festivals' impact on stock returns...

This paper investigates asset pricing anomalies in sharia-compliant (SC) stocks in the US market, focusing on whether dividend-oriented strategies can yield significant alphas. SC stocks adhere to Islamic principles, avoiding activities such as the production and sale of alcoholic beverages,...