This study examines the relationship between trade and the OIC countries' social developments as measured by the Human Development Index (HDI) using the generalized method of moments (GMM) procedure in a panel data distributed lag model for the years 1980 to 2005, with a five-year increments as...

The prohibitions of ribā (interest) and trading in non-ḥalāl businesses in Islam redefines investment universe assumed by Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). In Islamic investment world, risk-free asset and market portfolio with non-ḥalāl constituents are irrelevant. We propose...

This paper examines the information content of implied volatility of structured call warrant in the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX). The study is the first to examine implied volatility of equity options (structured warrants) outside the US. Using a daily dataset for 252 trading days for a period...

This paper investigates the magnitude of geographic as well as commodity concentration for Malaysia from 1970 to 2003 and how the pattern of trade and instability has changed over time. The instability index is regressed upon a set of explanatory variables including commodity concentration,...

The study assesses the impact of the 2007 US sub-prime crisis on the Malaysian stock market by analysing both the benchmark and sectoral indices. Specifically, it empirically examines the integration of the Malaysian, US and Japanese stock markets at the sectoral level, such as finance,...

The main focus of this paper is to examine the corporate management models of selected waqaf entities in Malaysia and Singapore. The waqaf entities involved in this study include two corporate waqaf institutions namely Kumpulan Waqaf An-Nur Berhad and IIUM Endowment Fund and one corporate waqaf...