Challenges Facing Financial Engineering with Islamic Rules

“islamic Financial Services Industry: the European Challenges”

What is Islamic Finance? There are at least three characteristics which makes it different from the conventional debt finance. First, it prohibits riba or interest, or in other words a fixed and pre-determined rate of return to be paid on the deposits or to be received from the borrowers. The rate of return is variable and determined by the profit and loss that the bank makes during a given per...

The Challenges Facing International Financial Regulation

The financial crisis in the Fall of 1998 was the first post-World War II crisis in which events in emerging market economies seriously threatened the financial stability of the West, and where the origins of the crisis was clearly to be found in the workings of liberalised markets and private sector institutions. The spark was the financial crisis that overwhelmed many of the Asian economies in...

1 Incoherence of Contract - Based Islamic Financial Jurisprudence in the Age of Financial Engineering Mahmoud

Islamic financial jurisprudence has always had the stated aim of enhancing human welfare, and therefore prohibitions must be seen through the lens of welfare-enhancing regulation of financial practices. In today’s age of financial engineering, utilizing many of the legal and financial advances of the past two decades, it is quite easy to synthesize the contracts that classical and contemporary ...

Taxing Firms Facing Financial Frictions∗

In the U.S. business income is taxed several times at different sources, including corporate income, dividends, capital gains, and interest payments. We investigate how the different rates above affect firm investment and the allocation of capital in the economy. To do so, we construct and calibrate a model with heterogeneous firms, borrowing constraints, costly equity issuance and endogenous e...

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