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Contractual Enforceability Issues : Sukuk and Capital Markets Development

McMillen, Michael J. T. - 2013

This article considers the development of sukuk as the mainstay element of the "debt" or finance side of the Islamic capital markets. The two general types of sukuk are described: whole-business securitization sukuk; and asset secrutization sukuk. Differences between the conventional...

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The Village of Billionaires : Fair Taxation and Redistribution Amid Relative and Absolute Poverty

Brassey, Alexis - 2020

opposed to absolute poverty. If one accepts that taxation is to fund public services, the question arises, at least in … issue of which is more pressing, relative as opposed to absolute poverty?The contention in this paper is that there is a far …

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Promises and Pitfalls of the European Union Policy on Foreign Investment - How Will the New EU Competence on FDI Affect the Emerging Global Regime?

Chaisse, Julien - 2015

This article analyses constitutional changes and policy consequences concerning the transfer to the supranational level of an external competence in the field of investment resulting from the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). It states that EU Member States lose their...

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Forces Underlying Trade Integration in the APEC Region: A Gravity Model Analysis of Trade, FDI, and Complementarity

T. Otsubo, Shigeru; Umemura, Tetsuo - In: Journal of Economic Integration 18 (2003), pp. 126-149

- led Asian growth has revealed the role of FDI as a financial gravity for trade integration in the APEC region. Analyses of … the additions of trade complementarity and FDI flows as gravity variables of emerging significance, suggest that 1) APEC … the mid 1980s with reductions in trade distortions; and 4) inward FDI is a significant determinant of the direction of …

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EU-India Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement : Opportunities and Challenges

Chakraborty, Debashis; Chaisse, Julien; Kumar, Animesh - 2015

India has a long history of economic linkages with the EU member states. In recent period, the volumes of Indo-EU trade both in case of merchandise products and services have considerably increased and a number of investment collaboration opportunities are emerging. Since 2007 the two sides are...

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Investing in Emerging Markets : Finding Out how Political Risk Influences FDI in Russia

Popovich, Andrey - 2007

In this research it was studied whether or not political risks have had any direct influence on the inflow of FDI in …

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Undervaluation, Financial Development, and Economic Growth

Zou, Jingxian - 2017

This paper analyzes the effect of undervaluation on economic growth in the presence of borrowing constraints. Based on a two-sector, small open-economy model, we show that undervaluation can promote economic growth by partly correcting distortions in financial markets through the channels of...

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Financial Integration in Europe Through the Lens of Composite Indicators

Hoffmann, Peter - 2019

This paper develops composite indicators of financial integration within the euro area for both price-based and quantity-based indicators covering money, bond, equity and banking markets. Prior to aggregation, individual integration indicators are harmonised by applying the probability integral...

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Financial integration and growth outcomes in Africa : experience of the trade blocs

Adekunle, Ibrahim A.; Onanuga, Abayomi Toyin; Odusanya, … - 2021

In this study, we examine the benefits of financial integrations in four of Africa regional trade blocs: COMESA, ECCAS, CEN-SAD and ECOWAS. We regress de-jure and de-facto indices of financial integration on growth outcome using the dynamic system generalised method of moment and pooled mean...

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Revisiting the volatility-growth relationship : some cross country evidence : 1978-2017

Raju, Y. N.; Acharya, Debashis - In: Cogent economics & finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-23

This paper attempts a re-examination of the relationship between the output volatility and economic growth using an annual data set for select 67 countries for the period 1978 to 2017 spanning over 40 years. Towards this objective cross section and panel, regressions are estimated for different...

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