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Interest prohibition and financial product innovation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
We give a rough sketch of the Judaic, Greek, Islamic and Christian positions in the matter of interest prohibition during the last few millennia and discuss the way in which interest prohibition is dealt with in Islamic finance, the problems with ...
Bergstra, J. A., Middelburg, C. A.
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Dialectical Roots for Interest Prohibition Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
It is argued that arguments for strict prohibition of interests must be based on the use of arguments from authority. This is carried out by first making a survey of so-called dialectical roots for interest prohibition and then demonstrating that for at ...
Bergstra, Jan Aldert
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An Application Specific Informal Logic for Interest Prohibition Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Interest prohibition theory concerns theoretical aspects of interest prohibition. We attempt to lay down some aspects of interest prohibition theory wrapped in a larger framework of informal logic.
Bergstra, J. A., Middelburg, C. A.
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Quantitative relations between corruption and economic factors

open access: yes, 2007
We report quantitative relations between corruption level and economic factors, such as country wealth and foreign investment per capita, which are characterized by a power law spanning multiple scales of wealth and investments per capita.
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Bitcoin and Islamic Finance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
It is argued that a Bitcoin-style money-like informational commodity may constitute an effective instrument for the further development of Islamic Finance.
Bergstra, J.A.
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Decision-theoretic approaches to non-knowledge in economics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The aim of this contribution is to provide an overview of conceptual approaches to incorporating a decision maker’s non-knowledge into economic theory.
Svetlova, Ekaterina, van Elst, Henk
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Exploring Implied Certainty Equivalent Rates in Financial Markets: Empirical Analysis and Application to the Electric Vehicle Industry

open access: yes, 2023
In this paper, we mainly study the impact of the implied certainty equivalent rate on investment in financial markets. First, we derived the mathematical expression of the implied certainty equivalent rate by using put-call parity, and then we selected ...
He, Yifan, Rachev, Svetlozar
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Real Islamic Logic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Four options for assigning a meaning to Islamic Logic are surveyed including a new proposal for an option named "Real Islamic Logic" (RIL). That approach to Islamic Logic should serve modern Islamic objectives in a way comparable to the functionality of ...
Bergstra, Jan Aldert
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Investor sophistication and earnings management during economic crisis: evidence from the banking industry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper is written to give fundamental understanding on earnings management of the banks during 2008 global financial crisis. It provides various literature reviews on earnings management of firms during a severe economic downturn, and during the ...
Toeung, Oudam
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Estimating Stable Fixed Points and Langevin Potentials for Financial Dynamics

open access: yes, 2023
The Geometric Brownian Motion (GBM) is a standard model in quantitative finance, but the potential function of its stochastic differential equation (SDE) cannot include stable nonzero prices.
Harren, Jan   +3 more
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