Purpose: The progressive aging of the population is suggesting that public pension plans should be increasingly supplemented by private savings schemes. Accordingly, this supposes the appearance of a wide range of innovative savings products to meet the varying needs of savers and financial...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the functioning and organizational structure of the historic Andalusian water courts, institutions of Islamic origin whose basic model should be considered in light of the regulation of modern Islamic banking and finance. Design/methodology/approach: The...

This paper proposes that there exist situations when two or more investors who want to invest equal amounts in different, but successive periods, would be better off to "collude" and invest for the whole period to take advantage of an upward slopping yield curve. The goal of this paper is to...