This paper analyzes the impact of global and regional spillovers to GCC equity markets. GCC equity markets were impacted by spillovers from U.S. equity markets despite varying degrees of foreign participation. Spillovers from regional equity markets were also important but the magnitude of the...

Purpose: We investigate the nature and degree of US economic policy uncertainty spillover on the stock markets of a group of nonconventional economies like the GCC countries, where risk-sharing based financial system is prominent and foreign investment, risk-free interest, derivatives, etc. are...

This paper presents a new non-parametric methodology for the description of the evolution of the asset cycle in the stock market. It uses the empirical distribution of the data; in particular the structures of the tails of return distributions to build Boom-Bust Indicators (BBI) that describe...

The returns predictions and price movements of financial markets are predicted through online search engines. These search engines claim to trade sentiments of individual investors. This study aims to determine the changes in the American stock market returns due to Bitcoin investors’...

Blockchain is coming to tax administration and will cause fundamental change. This article considers the potential for blockchain technology as it applies to the introduction of a value added tax in the Gulf Cooperation Council. Blockchain technology disrupts centralized ledgers. Blockchain...

1. Introduction: FinTech and Islamic Finance in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC); Nafis Alam and Syed Nazim Ali -- 2. A Critical Analysis of Bitcoin from an Islamic Legal Perspective; Farrukh Habib -- 3. Combining Islamic Equity Portfolios and Digital Currencies: Evidence from Portfolio...

"This book demonstrates how technology-driven innovation in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries influences the evolution of the economic sustainability model in the region and how experiences drawn from this process may be employed across the field of international business and international...