International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management: Volume 12 Issue 2

Support for smallholder farmers through Islamic instruments: The case of Bangladesh and lessons for Nigeria

Ishrat Hossain, Aliyu Dahiru Muhammad, Binta Tijjani Jibril, Simeon Kaitibie

In societies with strong presence of Islam, Islamic instruments with more scope for fairness and equity can be innovatively harnessed to play an increasing role in the development…

Data envelopment analysis and data mining to efficiency estimation and evaluation

Abdel Latef M. Anouze, Imad Bou-Hamad

This paper aims to assess the application of seven statistical and data mining techniques to second-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) for bank performance.

The complementarity between corporate social responsibility disclosure and institutional investor in Jordan

Abdullah Daas, Reem Alaraj

The purpose of this paper is to explore corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure and its relation to institutional investor (INSV) of Jordanian private listed companies…

Corporate governance, Sharia’ah governance and performance: A cross-country comparison in MENA region

Amina Buallay

The performance and effectiveness of governance principles continue to be a matter of concern (Mollah and Zaman, 2015). Focusing on differences between conventional and Islamic…

External and internal determinants of performances of Shariah and non-Shariah compliant firms

Catherine S.F. Ho, Nor Erna Nabila Mohd-Raff

This study aims to provide comprehensive models that investigate the combination of both external fundamentals and internal characteristics on firm performance and if there is any…

Evolving banking market structure in Oman: should CBO approve the mergers?

Saeed Al-Muharrami

In 2013-2014, Bank Muscat and National Bank of Oman requested a merger and Bank Sohar and Bank Dhofar lodged a similar request. This paper aims to investigate the shape of the…

Do fundamental portfolios outperform in the MENA equity markets?

Rasha Tawfiq Abadi, Florinda Silva

This study aims to investigate the performance of fundamental weighted portfolios (using sales, cash flows, dividends, book values and a composite of all these variables), an…

Cross section of stock returns on Shari’ah-compliant stocks: evidence from Pakistan

Salman Ahmed Shaikh, Mohd Adib Ismail, Abdul Ghafar Ismail, Shahida Shahimi, Muhammad Hakimi Mohd. Shafiai

This paper aims to study the cross section of expected returns on Shari’ah-compliant stocks in Pakistan by using single- and multi-factor asset pricing models.