ISLAMIC FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN MODERN RUSSIA

Prerequisites For Effectiveness Of Resource Mobility In Islamic Financial Institutions (IFIs)

Social and financial efficiency of Islamic microfinance institutions: A Data Envelopment Analysis application

Microfinance has been developed as alternative solution for global poverty alleviation effort in the last 30 years. Microfinance institution (MFI) has unique characteristic wherein they face double bottom line objectives of outreach to the poor and financial sustainability. This study proposes a two-stage analysis to measure Islamic Microfinance institutions (IMFIs) performance by comparing the...

Electronic Services (IT) in the Banking and Financial Institutions

This research investigates the methods for improving the quality of IT services (electronic services) in the Melli Banks branches in Mashhad province, where QFD and ANP models were operated. To this concern, three-dimensional, usability, service interaction and information quality to improve IT service quality were examined. The results of the analysis of the opinion of Melli Bank Customers ind...

Matching in Informal Financial Institutions.

This paper analyzes an informal financial institution that brings heterogeneous agents together in groups. We analyze decentralized matching into these groups, and the equilibrium composition of participants that consequently arises. We find that participants sort remarkably well across the competing groups, and that they re-sort immediately following an unexpected exogenous regulatory change. ...

CULTURAL HISTORY OF MODERN RUSSIA Religion in Modern Russian History

The essay below, written for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Modern Russian History, attempts to address the role of religion in Russia over the last three centuries or so. As such, it serves as a useful introduction to at least some of the issues that we will address in this course. The article is notable for its attempt to address all of Russia’s various religions, and thus to set the issu...