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enhance investments in gold to avoid the element of ‘syubhah’ or doubts since gold has been used in the past for many … functions. Investment in gold has been in demand for the past few years especially in hedging strategies. In this paper, we … study the relationships between selected currencies in terms gold prices and their movements in volatility and correlation …
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Investment in gold has been in demand for the past few years especially in hedging strategies. At the same time …, various calls for gold to go back to its historical function even before the coming of Islam have been popular among Islamic … supporting gold as a currency. Many studies have been dedicated to the relationships between gold and various commodities and …
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prices: crude oil and gold. For the empirical analysis we use daily data from the period January 2, 1998 to June 30, 2014. To … stock market indexes. Third, only the price of gold depends on past values of stock market indexes for almost all sub-periods. …
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minimize the risk. Controversies pertaining to the role of gold and its stability to diversify the investment portfolio had … humble attempt to examine the correlation and causality between the Malaysian sectoral stock indices and gold applying … that gold was the most independent (exogenous) variable compared to the sectoral stock indices even during the 2008 …
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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 … for gold and Shariah-compliant equities ranging from January 1996 to April 2013, and comparing between developed and … emerging markets in time-frequency domain. Wavelet Coherence technique is applied to identify the best time-frequency for gold …
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This study is the first attempt to investigate the relationship between firm’s leverage and systematic risk for seven European countries in relation to Shari’ah (Islamic) stock screening. This paper also aims to examine the shock transmission through the systematic risk and whether less debt...
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the return and volatility linkages among Moroccan stock market with that of U.S. and three European countries (France, Germany and U.K.) before and during the financial crisis. More specifically, we use stock returns in MASI, CAC, DAX, FTSE and NASDAQ as...
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Co-movements in equity markets may reflect either financial contagion or stock market integration. While the former tends to demonstrate financial stability and resiliency, the latter has played an important role for stock market development. This paper attempts to investigate the co-movements,...
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the venture capital investments in the hi-tech startups, comparing to other regions in the World. We conclude with the …
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This paper investigates the volatility and correlations of stock returns of some crisis-hit countries such as, US, Greece, Thailand and Malaysia during the major global financial crises since 1992. The paper makes an attempt to address the following two issues: Firstly, to measure the extent of...
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