The recent uncertainty in the global financial markets has highlighted to financial market participants the importance of investment decision making. Despite this, there is still comparatively little research on the factors that influence investment decisions. Indeed, the issue of religion has...

In the past decade there has been strong growth in Islamic finance and banking across the globe. This has also been coupled with a movement towards the implementation of Islamic law amongst it adherents. This paper uses an experimental design to investigate the investment behaviours of a group...

Purpose – In the past decade, there has been strong growth in Islamic finance and banking across the globe, there is little empirical evidence on the impact of religiosity on financial decisions. This paper aims to address this issue. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses an...

Five years ago, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson made "levelling up" a central plank of the Conservative Party's bid for re-election, with a manifesto pledge to "level up every part of the UK". In 2022, the government published a thorough and ambitious White Paper setting out 12 levelling up...

In this report, we analyse the current state of the education system in England and set out the key challenges that the next government will inherit. This is not just a tale of despair. Compared with many other developed countries, England's education system does well in terms of student...