The Asian financial crisis, which can be characterized as a capital account crisis with the twin features of a financial crisis, i.e., currency crisis (international) and banking crisis (domestic) (see Yoshitomi and Ohno, 1999), has highlighted the weaknesses of the domestic banking system and...

The central question addressed by this study is whether countries with above-average governance grew faster than countries with below-average governance. Using the World Bank's worldwide governance indicators to measure governance performance, it examines whether a country with governance...

"Islamic Finance as a Complex System is a unique collection that provides theoretical, empirical, and policy insights into Islamic finance. The contributors are theorists and practitioners from prominent institutions, including the world's biggest Islamic and non-Islamic financial institutions,...