Evolution of Islamic finance industry & capital markets -- Development of sukuk in Islamic capital markets -- Differentiating between conventional bonds & sukuks -- Shariah perspective on sukuk -- Common structures of sukuk -- Sukuk development in Pakistan -- Growing opportunities in the sukuk...

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the impact of capital account liberalization and foreign bank ownership on income inequality. The timeline was 1991-2020, and the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) were analyzed through an unbalanced panel dataset. To measure...

The aim of this study is to predict the Turkish Lira’s exchange rate against the US Dollar by combining models . As a result, the authors include three univariate forecasting models: ARIMA, Naive, and Exponential smoothing, and one multivariate model: NARDL for the first time with Artificial...

This research concentrates on using neural networks in the modelling and prediction of macroeconomic variables in specific. Macroeconomic predictors are particularly interested in neural networks because of their capacity to predict any linear or non-linear connection with a decent degree of...

The aim of this conceptual paper is to propose a toolkit to assist entrepreneurs to evaluate their organizational goals achievement. This toolkit is design as a clear set of systematic guideline for organizations to analyse their data to extract value that meet certain organizational goals. It...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to compare the return performance and persistence of ethical and conventional mutual funds during two extreme events, the Asian and the global financial crises under Shariah constraints. Design/methodology/approach: The overall sample comprises of 129...

Data is an important asset to assist organization in decision making in order to achieve the organization goals. However, the trustworthiness of organization data in achieving the organization goals is questioned because of the vast amount of organization data. Therefore, it is important to...

We propose a modelling concept for the organizational goals as a tool to evaluate organization data conformance in relation the organization goal. We suggest that this model is important in assisting the organization to utilize the organization data and information from the vast amount of data...