La présence des femmes dans les Conseils d'administration est devenu un enjeu organisationnel majeur du fait des répercussions qui en découlent, à la fois sur le fonctionnement des entreprises (enjeux en termes de diversité) et sur l'ensemble de la société (briser le "plafond de verre")....

This article investigates the dynamics of regional financial integration and its determinants in an international setting. We test a conditional version of the international capital asset pricing model (ICAPM) accounting for the deviations from purchasing power parity (PPP) as well as temporal...

Despite the increasing attention to ethical investments, the empirical studies on Islamic indices are scarce. Our article aims to contribute to the empirical literature by exploring the efficiency of these indices and their potential for diversification in comparison with the conventional...

The microfinance sector is relatively new in Armenia, and has shown significant increase over the last decade. We designed a qualitative research to explore the main characteristic and adaptation strategies of the microfinance sector in this country. Our findings indicate that the emergence of...

The debate over the under-performance or the over-performance of Islamic funds is not over yet. Hence, our literature review exhibits that all the previous works studied the Islamic equity funds without exploring the persistence of their performance, even if this issue is very important to...

During the past decade, Qatar has changed status. A micro invisible state on a world map with a little presence in the regional balance in the Middle East, Qatar has become a cultural power (al-Jazeeras success), diplomatic (the arbiter of political transitions) and financial (QIA). It is...

A partir d’une synthèse des nombreuses études sur la situation économique et politique de ce pays depuis son indépendance, soit de manière directe (études spécifiques sur l’Algérie), soit de manière indirecte (études sur les stratégies de développement des Etat rentiers), nous...

Seemingly, the economic relations have no thing to do with the morality. The economy claims to be able to be a science; yet in th other scientific disciplines one does not arise this type of questions (we do not wonder if the physics of particles is moral either or not or if the composition of...

The present study reinvestigates the impact of corruption on economic growth by incorporating financial development and trade openness in growth model in case of Pakistan.We have used time series data over the period of 1987–2009. We have applied s