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This paper makes an attempt to analyse the causality between Islamic stock market and three macroeconomic variables in the case of Malaysia. Although there are numerous studies investigating relationship between conventional stock market and macroeconomic fundamentals, there is a certain gap in...
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Econometricians had been blamed for the financial crises that occurred due to their giving a ‘false hope’ to investors and policy makers using untested theoretical assumptions. Therefore, econometricians had been challenged to reform their studies by grounding them more solidly on reality....
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This paper seeks to close the gap of the lack of empirical evidence surrounding the different impact of conventional interest rates on Islamic finance components – Islamic stock markets, Islamic banking and Islamic insurance (called takaful). Such evidence remains imperative in order for the...
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Most of previous researches have only focused on the effect of export expansion on economic growth while ignoring the potential of import in developing economic growth. This study makes an attempt to examine the relationship between trade and economic growth in Malaysia with emphasis on both the...
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This Malaysia is a developing Islamic state that faced government budget deficit since 1998. It is undeniable that a budget deficit or inability to cover government spending is not positively seen by external parties. The optimum level of government budget is the state where government spending...
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In this study we were motivated to ascertain whether the profit rates of the investment deposit accounts based on the profit and loss sharing contracts offered by the Islamic banks are truly based on the performance of the underlying assets or otherwise, by taking Malaysia as our case study....
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This paper analyzes the Shariah compliant nature of Islamic banks (IB) by using Time Series Multivariate Forecasting techniques to test the correlation and direction of causality between interest rates and IB financing . Islamic finance defines a 0% Interest rate, both on the asset and on the...
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Today, it is widely recognized that housing price boom-bust cycles lay at the heart of the latest global financial crisis. A housing boom is commonly defined as a period in which a housing price exceeds its fundamental value. Like most of the European Union member countries, many economies...
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We investigate an impact of oil-price shocks on GDP and exchange rate dynamics in resource-heterogeneous economies. We …-exporting, and less-resource-intensive economies. On average, real GDP in oil-exporting economies exhibits substantial contraction …, while for metal exporters there is a significant real GDP expansion suggesting an offsetting effect of metal exports on oil …
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We investigate an impact of oil-price shocks on GDP and exchange rate dynamics in resource-heterogeneous economies. We …-exporting, and less-resource-intensive economies. On average, real GDP in oil-exporting economies exhibits substantial contraction …, while for metal exporters there is a significant real GDP expansion suggesting an offsetting effect of metal exports on oil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013369064