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Harmonisation in Islamic finance: reasons and dimensions
No full textIslamic finance is now at the stage of internationalisation, witnessing greater integration between the Islamic financial industry and the global financial system. Islamic finance has gradually evolved to become a dynamic and competitive form of financial intermediation. The Islamic financial industry has been developing ways to facilitate its interaction and integration into the global financial system. We see Islamic finance attracting the attention of the global audience and transcending religious, political and geographical boundaries. It has the potential to be adopted as an alternative to the global financial system..
Comment on “Toward Myanmar's new stage of development: transition from military rule to the market”
No full textIt is not easy to write a scholarly paper on Myanmar economy given the scarcity of reliable statistics. The paper by Fumiharu Mieno (2013) represents a commendable effort to shed some light on the dark chapters of the traumatized Myanmar economy. The problems of Myanmar are primarily homegrown. The military regime overthrew the civilian government in 1962, drove out the foreigners, and went into self-imposed isolation. It is pertinent to underscore that Burma (now Myanmar) was a thriving economy in the 1950s, and Rangoon was the commercial capital of Southeast Asia, way ahead of Bangkok, Saigon, and Singapore. Myanmar has huge potentials that remain untapped. Again, Myanmar has only itself to blame. By a historical accident, the open economy of Burma was transformed abruptly into a closed economy with disastrous consequences.http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aepr.12010/abstrac
Alternative dispute resolution in Islamic banking and finance: a paradigm shift in arbitration
No full textThis research will look at the reasons for the civil courts being the preferred mode of dispute resolution for Islamic finance disputes in Malaysia and how arbitration, based on the shari'ah can play an active role to resolve disputes in Islamic finance cases. Various features of arbitration in general and Islamic arbitration in particular will be looked into, followed by a study of the arbitration rules under two arbitration centres to find the common themes of these centres and the differences in their approach, if any ..
The evolution of Islamic venture capital in Malaysia: an expository study
No full textIslamic venture capital is a strategic tool to enhance cooperation in the Muslim world. This is because it helps form smart partnership among the members of OIC countries. Venture capital is an investment in highly risky projects in return for potential high return focusing mainly on technology. For more than a decade, the trend has shown tremendous changes; hence venture capital investment records increasing interest of the investors in other sectors such as agricultural production, medical instruments and others. Islamic venture capital has been running in parallel with the mainstream in Malaysia. There are several reasons supporting the emergence of Islamic venture capital namely, attraction of Middle East investors and underutilisation of surplus in the Muslim world. This paper traces the development of Islamic venture capital in Malaysia, identifies the regulatory bodies, and the policy initiatives, and the pioneer corporations. In conclusion, it examines three phases of the development of Islamic venture capital in Malaysia namely, the evolutionary process, the degree of incorporation and developmental patterns. The applied Shariah mechanisms are hybrid of musharakah, mudarabah, and wakalah. It suggests that the balance between supply side and demand side, public friendly regulation may actualise the Malaysian industrialisation dream. In addition, refocusing long-term investment, reorientation of SMEs towards venture capital investment, establishment of private-oriented venture capital industries, creation of cash waqf and/or Islamic social bank are some suggested solutions in promoting Islamic venture capital in Malaysia. They may also be of help to other jurisdictions
Critical appraisal of rahn-based Islamic microcredit facility from Shari'ah perspective
No full textThe rahn-based Islamic microcredit facility is currently popular among Islamic financial institutions in Malaysia, essentially because of its commercial features, which make it attractive and competitive with conventional pawnbroking. However, the substance of this product triggers some Shari`ah issues, which are mainly centred on the safekeeping fee the bank charges the customer under the principle of ijarah al-hifz (safekeeping fee) and wadi`ah yad al-damanah (guaranteed safe custody). This paper is primarily intended to examine the key Shari`ah issues associated with the structure that is widely accepted at present. It undertakes a case study of two selected Islamic banks that offer a rahn-based Islamic microcredit facility to their clients. The product manual of each bank has been examined to understand the structure flow of the product, payment of the safekeeping fee and other relevant operational aspects of the product. Interviews have also been conducted to gather data related to the operation of this product that was not available in the product manuals of the two selected Islamic banks. It is proposed that the alternative structure must comply with the Shari`ah and meets most of the distinctive commercial features of the rahn-based Islamic microcredit facility to maintain its commercial viability in the industry
Statistical microeconomics
No full textA statistical generalization is made of microeconomics in the spirit of going from classical to statistical mechanics. The price and quantity of every commodity1 traded in the market, at each instant of time, is considered to be an independent random variable: all prices and quantities are considered to be stochastic processes, with the observed market prices being a random sample of the stochastic prices. The dynamics of market prices is determined by an action functional and, for concreteness, a specific model is proposed. The model can be calibrated from the unequal time correlation of the market commodity prices. A perturbation expansion for the correlation functions is defined in powers of the inverse of the total budget of the aggregate consumer and the propagator for the market prices is evaluated
Dynamics of consumer expenditure and stock market prices and uncertainty: Malaysia evidence
No full textThe present paper analyzes the role of stock market, more specifically real stock prices and stock market uncertainty/volatility, on private consumption behavior for an emerging market, Malaysia, using quarterly data from 1991 to 2009. Employing the autoregressive distributed lag approach to cointegration test, the paper establishes a long-run equilibrium that ties private consumption to its determinants - real income, real stock prices, real lending rate, and stock market volatility. In the long run, the presence of the stock market wealth effect is documented. At the same time, the stock market volatility is also noted to depress private consumption particularly when the volatility is at the degree as observed during the Asian crisis. The authors further note the short-run influences of real stock price changes on consumption growth and the adjustment of private consumption to the long-run level when it is modeled in an error-correction setting. Our simple simulation indicates that the drop in the private consumption due to the decline in stock market wealth post-crisis is substantial, amounting to 2.7% of average post-crisis gross domestic product
Capital Market Shariah Advisory Committee renamed
No full textThe Capital Market Development Authority (CMDA) is the regulator for the capital markets in the Maldives. In May 2011, the CMDA took the initiative to develop a fully-fledged Islamic capital market in the Maldives and the first step towards this vision was to establish a Capital Market Shariah Advisory Committ ee (CMSAC)
Factors influencing the penetration rate of Malaysian takaful industry from takaful managers’ perspective
No full textThe Malaysian Takaful industry has experienced encouraging growth since its inception in 1985. Annual growth rate of the industry has been estimated to be around 20%. Despite such impressive rate of growth, it is believed that the market penetration of Takaful is still low. This paper seeks to find the factors influencing Takaful market penetration based on the experience of managers of Takaful operators. Twenty (20) Takaful managers were randomly selected and interviewed. The interviewees pointed out the factors that deter the public from participating in Takaful could be listed as follows: the lack of public awareness in the advantages of Takaful over insurance products, the limited range of product varieties, the shortage of relevant expertise to explain Takaful products, the need to improve the distribution channels and marketing strategies. The paper also suggested several ways of improving Takaful market penetration, namely: the need to develop tailor-made products to suit customer needs according to the different segments of the society, expanding the range of product varieties, extensive training of staff and agents to enhance their products and services, technical and Shari’ah knowledge as well as to intensify promotion for higher level of awareness
Harmonisation in Islamic finance: reasons and dimensions
No full textIslamic finance is now at the stage of internationalisation, witnessing greater integration between the Islamic financial industry and the global financial system. Islamic finance has gradually evolved to become a dynamic and competitive form of financial intermediation. The Islamic financial industry has been developing ways to facilitate its interaction and integration into the global financial system. We see Islamic finance attracting the attention of the global audience and transcending religious, political and geographical boundaries. It has the potential to be adopted as an alternative to the global financial system..