Research background: The innovation in Shar??ah-compliant banking products has resulted the rapidly increasing size of assets Islamic banks worldwide. such have been growing twice as fast those conventional banks. do not depend on interest, speculation, or complex derivatives stemming from operations. Instead, their actions respect profit/risk sharing, and clarity contract are consistent with S...

The purpose of this paper is to relate the Danish concept of the “Balance Principle” to test the hypotheses of systemic liquidity risk in the banking sector. In the paper, the major econometric method is to gauge the general applicability of theories of liquidity and to test the applicable validity of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH). A prime example for this study is taken from the first quarter of...

Drawing on literature from finance and strategic management, eight likely factors associated with the profitability and growth of unquoted, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are identified and evaluated. These factors are: leverage, liquidity, education, industry performance, low cost, differentiation, product focus and customer focus. The sample comprises 134 unquoted SMEs aged five ye...

In the backdrop of the creation and collapse of the Cyprus stock market bubble, we document substantial positive abnormal returns around the announcement and execution of stock splits in Cyprus. Split-induced returns cannot be explained by variables proxying for conventional liquidity and signalling hypotheses for stock split activity, and are largely reversed in the post-split months. Post-spl...

The paper claims that conventional monetary theory obliterates the central role played by media of exchange in the workings and instability of capitalist economies; and that a significant part of the financial system depends on the resiliency of paper currency and liquid assets that have been built on top of it. The resilience of the resulting financial tree is questionable if regulators are no...