Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- About the Editors -- Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. This Issue -- 3. Future Directions -- References -- Chapter 1: Investigating International Portfolio Diversification Opportunities for the Asian Islamic Stock Market Investors -- 1....

We evaluate the influence of five major uncertainty factors on four asset classes. Our time-varying findings suggest that each asset hedges only a particular uncertainty factor, whereas gold does more than one factor, especially during COVID-19. Our quantile regression results show that gold and...

This chapter investigates the presence of a difference in the systemic risk level between Islamic and conventional banks in Bangladesh. The authors compare systemic resilience of three types of banks: fully fledged Islamic banks, purely conventional banks (CB), and CB with Islamic windows. The...