Papers with keyword "privatization"
Aaron Pitluck
This paper argues that the existing market in Islamic finance closely resembles Westbrook’s (2012) vision of social capitalism based on custodial regulation. However it also argues that the social benefits of presently existing Islamic finance appears rather slight, in large …
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Ken Zimmerman
We are caught between those who celebrate financial markets and calculative agents and those who denounce them. Many economists are in the former camp; many social scientists in the latter. This paper begins with a conclusion: “a pox on both …
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Liam McDermott
If American’s vote to force Congress to assign individual serial numbers to electronic dollars, the global economy will undergo a renaissance. All private and business bank accounts retain the exact same amount of cash, but by placing individual serial numbers …
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Santhosh Kumar
This paper examines the price volatility and hedging behavior of four notional commodity futures indices which represents the relevant sectors like Agriculture (AGRI), Energy (ENER), Metal (META) and an aggregate of agricultural, energy and metal commodities (COMDX), retrieved from the …
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Angelo Fusari
This paper brings into focus some general – and indeed basic – aspects of financial markets and processes, the understanding of which is indispensible for the investigation of many penetrating questions that, notwithstanding their importance, are likely to be set …
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Alan Dignam
An Epic interdisciplinary poem about rethinking financial markets both in terms of how we got here and what we do next.
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Ronald J. Colombo
In the wake of the financial crisis, many in the U.S. are revisiting the concept of “merit regulation” – the road not taken with regard to the federal regulation of securities. However, the drawbacks of such an approach remain as …
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Olivier Chaussavoine
The model openBarter defines an central limit order book allowing cyclic exchanges between more than two partners (buyer and seller) in a single transaction. It does not require any central monetary standard to perform competition between orders. The model provides …
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Jacques-Olivier Charron
The paper argues in favor of a radical disconnection between the exchange function and the valuation function of financial markets. It defends it from an investee’s point of view, mainly on the grounds that valuing financial assets is a matter of judgment.
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Dr. Emad Abdullatif
This paper addresses this question to investigate the incentive of the Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) in the privatization and economic reformation process. This study considers that the ISX represents one of the most important mechanisms that spur the Iraqi economy …
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