International Journal of Law and Management: Volume 59 Issue 5

A revisit to stock market contagion and portfolio hedging strategies: BRIC equity markets and financial crisis

Amanjot Singh, Manjit Singh

This paper aims to attempt to re-capture the stock market contagion effect from the US to the BRIC equity markets during the recent global financial crisis in a multivariate…

Financial transparency, corporate governance and information disclosure of the entrepreneur’s corporation in Rastin banking

Bijan Bidabad, Azarang Amirostovar, Mahshid Sherafati

This paper aims to define a set of operating regulations for financial transparency, corporate governance and information disclosure for the entrepreneur that applies to bank to…

Towards an effective legal and regulatory framework for Islamic financial transactions: Major initiatives of the Central Bank of Malaysia

Engku Rabiah Adawiah Engku Ali, Umar A. Oseni

In propelling Malaysia to become a high value-added and high-income economy by 2020, the Central Bank of Malaysia has consistently emphasized the need for a new trajectory of…

Relationship between corporate governance and audit switching: Iranian evidence

Mahdi Salehi, Ali Asgar Alinya

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between corporate governance and auditors switching of listed companies on the Tehran Stock Exchange.

Legal source, institutional quality and FDI flows in Africa

Godfred A. Bokpin, Lord Mensah, Michael E. Asamoah

This paper aims to find out how the legal system interacts with other institutions in attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Africa.

Family firms, board structure and firm performance: evidence from top Indian firms

R. Rathish Bhatt, Sujoy Bhattacharya

Given the prevalence of family-run businesses in India, this paper aims to empirically investigate the impact of family firms on the relationship between firm performance and…

University startups and special legislations: Genesis and developments in the United States of America, Japan and India

Pinaki Nandan Pattnaik, Satyendra C. Pandey

This paper aims at exploring the role of legislations in university startups.

Regulatory relationships and incentives: from Riggs Bank to HSBC

Patrick John O’Sullivan

The aim of the paper is to examine what type of relationship existed between the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and Riggs Bank in respect of anti-money laundering…

Does Musharakah Mutanaqisah converge with Bai Bithamin Ajil and conventional loans?

Aghilasse Kashi, Azhar Mohamad

This study aims to examine the disputable Shari’ah and the technical issues underlying the implementation of the Musharakah Mutanaqisah partnership (MMP) model in home financing…

Accounting development in a changing environment: the case of Tunisia

Fatma Ben Slama, Mohamed Faker Klibi

The purpose of this paper is to discuss accounting development in Tunisia, which is a developing North African country little known in the international accounting literature.