economy, the sectoral distribution of financial activities of conventional and Islamic banks in Bahrain is explored. The paper … uses the data available from the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) regarding the sectoral distribution in both conventional and … praxis in reality are also identified. The research is based on a single country, Bahrain, a financial hub for both …

the Kingdom of Bahrain were required by the regulator to have only a Shari’a Supervisory Board and an internal Shari …’a function. In 2017, the Central Bank of Bahrain issued a new Shari’a Governance module (SG) in its rulebook, requiring all …

surprises, which suggests that private information does not hinder CDS liquidity. …

number of public investors who trade it. Although these results match nicely with common notions of liquidity, one key … element is missing: liquidity also depends on (3) an asset s correlation with other securities. For example, if an illiquid … security is added, the liquidity of the non-market asset is still a decreasing function of volatility and an increasing …

. Instead, our results are in line with the hypothesis that a lower trading volume reduces liquidity, and thereby market quality …

more highly correlated; moreover, at these times, money supply positively affects financial market liquidity, albeit with a … lag of two weeks. During normal times, increases in mutual fund flows enhance stock market liquidity and trading volume …, but during financial crises, U.S. government bond funds see higher inflows, resulting in increased bond market liquidity …