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Increasingly Islamic financial institutions are being pressured by critics to offer profit and loss sharing (PLS) financing for the purpose of entrepreneurial development. We believe the growth of PLS can be incentivized by increasing the participation of Islamic asset managers and mutual funds...
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The paper is the first attempt to evaluate the role of gold as a hedge (negative or low correlation with equities in normal market conditions) and safe haven (negative or low correlation in times of market turbulence) by using the daily data for gold and Shariah-compliant equities ranging from...
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is that the contagion effect takes place early in the crisis and that herding behaviour dominates the latter stages of … from international diversification by holding a portfolio consisting of diverse stocks from these contagion countries …
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and Kuwait. This analysis also permits testing the existence of financial contagion among equity markets in the MENA … contagion in the eight MENA stock markets, we apply two robust methodologies on data from November 2008 to March 2014: MGARCH … financial contagion during the Arab Spring suggests that there is little evidence of cointegration among MENA markets implying …
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Volatility is a measure of variability in the price of an asset and is associated with unpredictability and uncertainty about the price. Even it is a synonym for risk; higher volatility means higher risk in the respective context. With regard to stock market, the extent of variation in stock...
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The focus of this paper is to investigate the potential for portfolio diversification strategies based on investing across international markets or economic sectors, using Malaysia as a case study. Analysing the comovement and correlation between returns and volatilities of the different markets...
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wavelet transform (MODWT) are employed to discern the correlation and volatilities of the variables. The paper's unique …
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wavelet transform (MODWT) are employed to discern the correlation and volatilities of the variables. The paper's unique …
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the recent econometric methodologies (M-GARCH/DCC, MODWT, and CWT/WTC). Hence, the unique contribution of this research is …
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This paper attempts to analyse the extent of financial integration of two developed (the U.S. and Japan) and two emerging Islamic stock markets (China and India) with the Malaysian Islamic stock market in order for the Malaysian financial traders to make decision about their portfolio...
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