Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the factor persuading the acceptance of Islamic pawn broking (Ar-Rahnu) among Islamic bank customers. Design/methodology/approach: The authors collected the data using a self-administered questionnaire design and analysed using SPSS Statistics...

Purpose: This study aims to explore the issue of residential price in Malaysia from a supply-side perspective. The views are directly obtained from medium and small-scale developers in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach: We used the semi-structured interview for analysis purpose. The samples...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the drivers of residential price as well as the degree co-movement of housing among different states in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach: This study adopted an advanced econometrics technique: the dynamic autoregressive-distributed lag...

Purpose: This study aims to document the influence of information content and the informativeness of analyst reports towards cumulative abnormal return in the Malaysian market. Design/methodology/approach: Samples of analyst reports for the period 4th January 2010 until 24th December 2015 were...

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the behavioural intention and adoption of internet banking (IB) among clients of local and foreign Islamic banks in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach: Survey questionnaires were distributed among the Islamic banks’ clients at two main states,...

Objective - This paper assesses the value of information disclosure in Malaysian analyst reports by examining three categories of firms, according to their age (young, medium and old).Methodology/Technique - The study uses a market-adjusted method to calculate the cumulative abnormal return and...

Trading greenhouse gas emissions is gaining importance as a means to combat the hazards of climate change. In her pursuit of a lower carbon footprint in the economy, Malaysia, a middle-income country, has undertaken a multi-pronged approach of schemes and actions. Key among them is the Clean...

Purpose This study aims to explicitly explore the criteria or attributes that would influence buyer decision on purchasing residential property in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach Generally, a total of 80 respondents participated in this study, and they hail from two states in Malaysia,...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the development of Islamic home financing and some of its practical issues. In addition, the study also intends to draw attention to some recommendations to the issues highlighted from the viewpoint of industrial experts....

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the nature and integration of Islamic stock markets across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN-5) countries for economic community (AEC) development. Design/methodology/approach: Using samples of daily closing prices from 2009...