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The Islamic private equity (IPE) market has grown dramatically over the last few years. There are some similarities between venture capital (VC) and some traditional methods in Islamic financing. In medieval Islamic societies it is hard to pinpoint the starting of IPE but there were partnership...
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This paper investigates risk and stability features of Islamic banking using a sample of 553 banks from 24 countries between 1999 and 2009. Small Islamic banks that are leveraged or based in countries with predominantly Muslim populations have lower credit risk than conventional banks. In terms...
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the intensity of competition between potential buyers influence it. Empirical analysis of licensing contracts signed …
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This paper investigates the degree of competition in the WAEMU financial industry over the period 2002-2007 using firm … to assess the level of competition. The results show that the prevailing market structure in the WAEMU financial industry … is concentrated and financial intermediaries operate under imperfect competition. Although competition was fierce during …
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We present a Cournot model that compares the critical threshold of collusion in Duopoly and Oligopoly Markets where the actors are private, mixed or public. We assume that the incentive critical threshold for collusion depends on the interconnection fees. The different threshold values...
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Malaysia has a total capacity pulp and paper production at over 1 million T/year. The country is a net importer of pulp … fibres as the use of recycled paper is growing in Malaysia. As for the other wood-based Malaysian industries, further …
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advantage in maximizing the resources in fulfilling the world demand. Given performance of Malaysia on timber exports, this …
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interval of values of the spillover parameter such that the relationship between competition and growth is an inverted-U-shape. …
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is high, a single sender never discloses. Competition restores full disclosure only if some of the senders are … symmetric equilibria approach full disclosure as competition increases. …
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This paper shows that dominant firms may wish to encourage competition in vertically-related markets. It shows that …
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