One major change in the world of international business and finance is the growing role of private equity investments in firms in emerging markets. In little more then four years, since 2003, the money raised by international, primarily American private equity funds for investment in emerging...

This article discusses the 2008 "clarification" of the Sukuk Standard of the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI). The clarification was issued by the Shariah Committee of AAOIFI in response to a review of all outstanding sukuk at the time. The...

This article presents research on all sukuk issuances from inception of the sukuk markets (pre-2001) to November of 2008 in terms of US dollar volume and number of issuances. It presents an analysis of those issuances by industry, structural type, structural type in each year, and tenor, among...

After introducing some fundamental concepts of relevance to Islamic finance, this article describes investment funds used to make investments in the United States, lease (ijara) investment structures used for real estate investments in different jurisdictions (including the early development of...

Firm-level data on productivity, financial activity and firms' international linkages have become essential for research in the fields of macro, international finance and growth. This paper describes the development of a firm-level global panel dataset for public and private companies based on...

This paper builds on the recent debate on the in-sample and out-of-sample predictability of US aggregate returns using a wide range of predictors by providing new evidence for smaller and less market-oriented European countries. We find evidence that macro and technical predictors can...

In this article we estimate the “Imports of Goods” in European countries in the period 2010-2019 for 28 countries. We use Panel Data with Fixed Effects, Panel Data with Random Effects, Pooled OLS, WLS. Our results show that “Imports of Goods” is negatively associated with “Private...

This paper examines the neoliberal claim that the only way to achieve sustainable growth and full employment is to abandon Keynesian macroeconomic management and the welfare state and bring back flexible labour market policies. It summarises the conditions required for neoliberal policies to...