Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Preface -- Structure of the Book -- Additional Materials -- Acknowledgment -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Capital Structure Theories and its Determinants -- 3 Shari’ah Compliant Equities and Capital Structure -- 4 Establishing a Framework for Comparative Analysis...

In this paper we explore empirically a long-standing question in the literature on finance for growth, namely whether the financial structure -in terms of the size of the banking system relative to the capital market- matters for economic growth. We build upon the existing literature by...