International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management: Volume 12 Issue 3

Dynamic and frequency connectedness across Islamic stock indexes, bonds, crude oil and gold

Nader Trabelsi

This paper aims to investigate the connectedness of Islamic Stock Markets in five regional financial systems, namely, the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe (EU), GCC (Gulf…

Financial and social efficiency in the Yemen microfinance institutions: A Hicks–Moorsteen TFP index analysis

Mohammed Ali Al-Awlaqi, Ammar Mohamed Aamer

The purpose of this paper is to discover the most important productivity determinants of Yemeni microfinance institutions. In addition, this study tests the most appropriate tool…

Publishing Islamic economics and finance research: polemics, perceptions and prospects

Syed Nazim Ali, Bahnaz Ali AlQuradaghi

The purpose of this study is to examine the academic polemics, stakeholder perceptions and publishing prospects for Islamic economics and finance (IEF) research.

Efficiency, firm-specific and corporate governance factors of the Takaful insurance

Hui Shan Lee, Fan Fah Cheng, Wai Mun Har, Annuar Md Nassir, Nazrul Hisyam Ab Razak

Malaysia is recognised as an emerging country with a large Muslim population, making the Malaysian Takaful industry the largest Takaful market in the Southeast Asia region and…

When are earnings informative?: Effect of stock liquidity on value of reported earnings in an emerging market: evidence from Egypt

Mona A. ElBannan, Omar Farooq

This paper aims to examine the impact of stock market liquidity on the value of reported earnings in Egypt, proxied by the earnings–return relationship, during the period between…

Ownership structure and audit committee effectiveness: evidence from top GCC capitalized firms

Mahfoudh Abdulkarem Al-Musali, Mohammed Helmi Qeshta, Mohamed Ali Al-Attafi, Abood Mohammad Al-Ebel

The purpose of this study is to report on the level of audit committee (AC) effectiveness on the top capitalized firms in GCC countries and to empirically investigate the…

Islamic banking and real performances in a dual banking system: Evidence from Saudi Arabia

Mohamed Ben Mimoun

There is a rich debate on the nature of Islamic banking (IB)–growth nexus and the direction of causality governing this nexus. This study aims to focus on this issue in the case…

Panel modeling of z-score: evidence from Islamic and conventional Saudi banks

Hassan Belkacem Ghassan, Abdelkrim Ahmed Guendouz

This paper aims to measure the stability extent of the banking sector in Saudi Arabia, including Islamic and conventional banks (CBs), using quarterly data.