Islamic banking & finance, a viable alternative to a flawed global system / by Nafis Alam -- Monetary union among Islamic economies, do conditions favour the gold dinar as common currency? / by Grace H.Y. Lee -- Islamic financial accounting / Mohammed Sharaf Shaiban -- Financial directives,...

This paper estimates productivity growth in Malaysian manufacturing over the period 1983-1999. Malmquist productivity Indices (MPIs) have been computed using non parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) type linear programming, which show productivity growth sourced from efficiency change and...

This paper estimates the private sector productivity growth in the Australian economy by decomposing productivity growth into growth of efficiency and technical progress. The paper computes Malmquist indices of Total factor productivity (TFP) using a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)-like linear...

Innovative financial products and services of commercial banks increase the exposure to liquidity, market and operational risks resulting in the banks facing vulnerable circumstances. Even the smallest unexpected loss, with a low capital to assets ratio, tends to jeopardise the survival of the...

This paper estimates technical efficiency of Australian textile and clothing firms based on the data obtained from the Business Longitudinal Survey (BLS) conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Using a Cobb Douglas stochastic production frontier the paper examines firm level...

This paper compares the operative performances of the banking institutions in China and India, taking into account the contentious issue of institutional differences in the banking sectors of these two economies, as reflected in the generation of non-performing loans. The study also examines the...