Islamic Banking and Finance

Edited by Munawar Iqbal () and David T. Llewellyn

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Islamic Banking and Finance discusses Islamic financial theory and practice, and focuses on the opportunities offered by Islamic finance as an alternative method of financial intermediation. Key features of profit-sharing (as opposed to debt-based) contracts are highlighted, and the ways in which they can facilitate improved efficiency and stability of a financial system are explored.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
ISBN: 9781840647877
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction

Munawar Iqbal and David T. Llewellyn

Ch 2 Decision-making under uncertainty: an Islamic perspective

Sami Ibrahim Al-Suwailem

Ch 3 Incentive-compatible profit-sharing contracts: a theoretical treatment

Habib Ahmed

Ch 4 Evidence on agency-contractual problems in mudarabah financing operations by Islamic banks*

Abdel-Fattah A.A. Khalil, Colin Rickwood and Victor Murinde

Ch 5 Incentive-compatible constraints for Islamic banking: some lessons from Bank Muamalat

Adiwarman A. Karim

Ch 6 How informal risk capital investors manage asymmetric information in profit/loss-sharing contracts

Mohammad Abalkhail and John R. Presley

Ch 7 Choice between debt and equity contracts and asymmetrical information: some empirical evidence

Kazem Sadr and Zamir Iqbal

Ch 8 Islamic banking contracts as enforced in Iran

Ali Yasseri

Ch 9 Islamic financial institutions of India: their nature, problems and prospects*

M.I. Bagsiraj

Ch 10 The interface between Islamic and conventional banking

Rodney Wilson

Ch 11 Alternative visions of international monetary reform

M Umer Chapra

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