Purpose This paper aims to provide a systematic review of literature on the demand for takāful (Islamic insurance) from articles published from January 2009 to June 2019. The review aims to synthesise and segment previously published research to identify the gaps and provide future research...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the pricing efficiency of the Malaysian crude palm oil (CPO) market before and after the structural break. This study uses the daily closing price of CPO and CPO futures (CPO-F) for the period ranging from June 2009 to August 2016 while taking...

"The central idea of sustainability in the modern world is intricate and ever-changing. Closely related to the realm of finance and socio-economic discussion, the phrase "sustainable impact finance" has become increasingly popular among bankers, practitioners, financial analysts, investors, and...

Purpose - This paper considers zakat (Islamic tax) as an alternative indicator to measure the performance of Islamic banks (IBs). It aims to examine whether zakat ratios can be used as Islamic performance (ISPER) indicators for IBs besides the conventional performance (COPER) indicators....

The present study employs the state of the art bias-corrected Malmquist Productivity Index method to examine the sources of efficiency and productivity of the foreign and domestic banks operating in the Malaysian banking sector. The preferred methodology enables us to isolate efforts to catch up...

The impact of economic freedom on the well being of the economy has been widely documented in the literature. Noticeably absent is empirical evidence on the influence of economic freedom on cost of financial intermediation. This limitation is somewhat surprising given the fact that the banking...