Past studies suggest that the Islamic finance system is only weakly linked or even decoupled from conventional markets. If this statement is true, then this system may provide a cushion against potential losses resulting from probable future financial crises. In this article, we make use of...

This paper evaluates the value at risk for individual sovereign bond and national equity markets for 10 member countries in the euro-zone, using four estimation models and three accuracy criteria in addition to the daily capital requirements, for the full sample period and a subperiod that marks...

We develop a multivariate momentum threshold autoregression (MTAR) model that examines the relationship between stock markets for each of the five BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – and changes in their economic, financial and political country risk ratings in...

This paper proposes a dynamic herding approach which takes into account herding under different market regimes, with concentration on the Gulf Arab stock markets – Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Our results support the presence of three market regimes (low, high and extreme...

We assess the co-movement between the sharia-compliant stocks and sukuk in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The wavelet squared coherency approach is applied to daily data covering GCC global, corporate and financial services sukuk indexes as well as GCC sharia stocks. The empirical...

This article attempts to examine whether the equity premium in the United States can be predicted from a comprehensive set of 18 economic and financial predictors over a monthly out-of-sample period of 2000:2–2011:12, using an in-sample period of 1990:2–2000:1. To do so, we consider, in...

We investigate the dynamic relationships between the US five-year financial CDS sector index spreads for the banking, financial services and insurance sectors in the short- and long-run over the recent period which is marked by the onset of the global financial crisis. For this purpose, we...