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COVID-19 on Performance of Islamic Banks in Fintech and Digitalization Era
Get PDFThis study attempts to provide insight on risk and opportunities for Islamic banks arising from COVID-19 pandemic by using document analysis approach. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased banking risk. The paper emphasizes the impact of the crisis on credit risk as historically thought as the most significant risk driver. Increased credit risk in Islamic financial institutions (IFIs) is due to broad-based deterioration of economic conditions affecting multiple sectors, resulting in a general increase of non-performing financing (NPF) balances and charge-offs. Further, it was found that banks have suffered more not only relative to other sectors, but also in comparison with previous crises. In addition, some authors observe that banks that had entered the crisis with the highest level of credit risk, measured in terms of credit default swap (CDS) spreads rise, were most hit. On the other hand, the pandemic has proved beyond doubt the value of digital services that minimize or eliminate direct human contact. The power of digitalization can facilitate outreach to even the most vulnerable population. Islamic financial institutions may seize this opportunity to expedite the digitalization of their operations either using their own resource or by joint venturing with technology companies
Managing Crypto-pegged Exchange Rates Risks in Islamic Banks in the Era of Digitalization Economy and Tokenization
Get PDFThe FX markets of the world have become one of the largest of all financial markets. Trading turnover averaged as high as $4.7[1] trillion a day in recent years, 70 times the daily trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange. Online foreign exchange trading is increasing. Electronic foreign exchange trading volume tops 60 percent of overall global foreign exchange trading. Traditionally foreign exchange risk is considered as part of market risk despite being a profound one. Foreign exchange is a critical risk factor that has at times been profound enough to cause entire economies to face crises and move towards recession. In the world of globalization, digitalization and tokenization where banks are expanding their businesses internationally faster than ever the growing foreign exchange and newborn cryptocurrency risk should be set as an independent source in risk management process. The paper analyses the growing pattern of foreign exchange risk within five years period for six Islamic banks in GCC region: National commercial bank Saudi Arabia; Al Baraka Banking group, Bahrain, Al Rajhi Bank, Saudi Arabia, Dubai Islamic Bank, UAE, Qatar Islamic Bank, Qatar and Samba Financial Group, Saudi Arabia (traditional bank with Islamic banking business). The analysis reviles the need for more robust exchange risk management and establishing a new “crypto-gold standard†or crypto-pegged exchange rates for eliminating the volatility and future losses due to it. The results show that tokenization could be a good tool for managing the exchange rate risk.
[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1000142405311190399990457646821185328411
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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