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Employing asset-pricing models over the period 2012 to 2017, this study examines whether a search attention index (SAI) explains the variation in the weekly excess return of stocks. The study finds that the estimated abnormal return of a portfolio based on search intensity is significantly high...
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether the practice of Islamic microfinance serves maqāsid al-shari'a (underlying intents of Islamic law) or not. The paper uses a qualitative methodology. Using the literature, five key factors of maqāsid al-shari'a pertaining to an Islamic economy and...
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The study investigates the tail-risk spillover between the markets for sukuk and conventional bonds across fifteen countries between 2016 and 2023. First, we estimate a time varying parameter-value at risk (TVP-VAR)-based frequency connectedness model to measure the total, short-, and long-term...
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This study investigates whether there is convergence among Islamic countries with respect to the relationship between growth in Islamic financial markets and economic growth in those countries as measured by Gross Domestic Product. We use data from 2013 to 2021 for the nine Islamic countries...
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Islamic bonds (Sukuk) emerged as an innovative capital market instrument over the last decade. This paper investigates the impact of conventional bonds and Sukuk announcement on shareholder wealth and their determinants using 79 Sukuks and 87 conventional bonds over the period of 2004e2012 in...
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