Currently these areas are unexplored in Islamic Finance
- Role of Islamic socio-economic institutions in economic development
- Perspective of Islamic economics and finance, including its critique
- Ethics and morality in Islamic economics and finance
- The economics of corruption in the Muslim world
- The global financial crisis, European sovereign debt crisis and COVID-19 crisis and Islamic finance
- Modern Monetary Theory and Islamic Finance
- Efficiency and performance of Islamic financial institutions
- Why do Islamic financial intermediaries exist?
- Effect of Islamic financing announcements on firm value
- Long-run impact of Islamic bank distress on firm performance
- Measuring banking competition and market power in Islamic finance
- Financier-borrower relationship, asymmetric information, and switching costs in Islamic finance
- Determinants of characteristics of bank relationships in Islamic finance
- Equilibrium and rationing in Islamic credit markets
- Banks, financial markets, and macroeconomic growth and Muslim World
- Role of formal and informal institutions in implementing reforms in the Muslim world
- Institutions, social order, and the political economy of the Muslim world
- Islamic financial product development, innovation and financial engineering
- Monetary policy and financial stability in Islamic banking and finance
- Credit channel of monetary policy and Islamic finance
- Benefits and costs of low monetary policy rates in Islam Banking
- Critiques of full reserve banking and fractional reserve banking and Islamic finance
- Transmission of monetary policy through Islamic banks
- Monetary policy and central banking function from an Islamic economics perspective
- Macro-prudential and micro-prudential policies for Islamic financial institutions
- Credit booms, financial crises, and Islamic finance
- Islamic Social Finance
- New models for Islamic microfinance and their comparative analysis
- Economics of social networks and their significance in Islamic microfinance
- Risk management and liquidity risk management instruments for Islamic banks
- Basel III, G20 reform agenda, IFSB and AAOIFI standards on Islamic financial services industry
- Impact Investing and Islamic Finance
- Current and Future status of Islamic economics, banking and finance research and education
- An assessment of Islamic economics and finance writings in international peer-reviewed journals
- Mathematics and valuation of Islamic financial instruments
- Islamic financial product engineering and Riba concealment
- Establishing alternative pricing and valuation benchmarks for Islamic finance
- Enhancing quantitative risk management capabilities of Islamic financial institutions
Potential Areas of Research for MS/PhD Students
- How Islamic financial instruments can be used in international trade?
- A mechanism for inter-bank transactions for Islamic and conventional banks
- Can Sharia board play a role in the development of Islamic instruments?
- Tawarruq as a tool of inter-bank borrowing
- Risk management framework for Islamic banks: do we need something special?
- Have the challenges faced by Islamic banks changed over the last decade?
- The dynamics of financial crisis: Conventional vs Islamic finance
- Can Zakat be used as a microfinancing tools?
- Value at Risk of Sukuk and conventional bonds
- Risk analysis of Murabaha financing and leasing
- What customers say about Islamic banking? Values vs religious perspectives
- Can ownership structure affect earning management?
- Collaborative Islamic Banking Service: The Case of Ijarah
- Success factors of collaboration in Islamic banks
- Constraints in the application of partnerships in Islamic banks
- Can Islamic finance reduce nonperforming loans?
- Which firms use Islamic financing?
- Can SME’s benefit more from Islamic financing?
- Islamic banking development and access to credit
- Islamic finance and economic growth
- A theological context for the distinction between Capitalism and the Islamic financial community- evidence through literature.
- Asset-backed financing- what does Islam guide?
- The development and acceptance of Islamic finance features in a Capitalist society- searching for answers.
- A systematic review of challenges and limitations in the implementation of Islamic financing in capitalist environments.
- Islamic views on hedging- highlighting the practice, similarities and differences in comparison to capitalism.
- Islamic finance and risk-sharing- a literary overview.
- The relevance of Islamic banking experience to career prospects and job opportunities for Islamic bankers in capitalist societies- investigating the scenario.
- Investigating the salient features of Islamic economics, impact on finance and the capitalist environment.
- The contribution of Islamic Shariah in an implementation of Islamic finance in Malaysia- a detailed review.
- Entrepreneurship in Islam- an extended literature review.
- Islamic finance, impact on conventional capital markets- a review of the UK.
- Tracing the historical pathway of Islamic finance in the UK from the 1970s- a literature-based investigation.
- What is the future of Islamic finance in environments increasingly relying on AI?
- What is Sukuk? Generating a factual understanding for this term and its importance within Islamic banking.
- Venture capital through the comparative perspectives of capitalist and Islamic financial rules- an analysis.
- Corporate social responsibility in an Islamic financial environment- a detailed literature-based review.
- A comparative investigation of the loyalty of conventional and Islamic bank customers in the UK.
- Compatibility of Islamic banking with halal tourism in Islamic countries- investigating rules, practices, challenges and limitations.
- Are customers of Islamic banking satisfied? A comparative investigation with traditional banking customers.
- An analysis of Islamic banking products and services and their contributory role in strengthening the Islamic financial institutions in Malaysia.
- Profit sharing, Interest and related theoretical assumptions in Islamic finance- an overview.
- Reconciliation of dual banking systems within a Muslim majority country- evidence from Pakistan/ Malaysia.
- Justification of the Islamic financial doctrine through sustainability factors- a review of literature.
- A comparative analysis of investment objectives among traditional and Sukuk investors through the Theory of Planned Behaviour.
- How does the concept of profitability in Islamic banks compare to a conventional bank? Review of literature.
- Is crowdfunding permissible through Sharia? Evidence from the Islamic finance literature.
- Smart financial products in view of Islamic finance- permissible or prohibited?
- Mapping economic growth in Malaysia as an extension of Islamic financial policies.
- Perspectives of corporate governance in Islamic financial institutions through an overview of contextual literature.
- Justification of cryptocurrency in Islamic finance- what does Islamic law guide?
- How are disputes resolved in Islamic financial institutions? Insights from literature.
- An analysis of Islamic finance perspective to risk sharing through a review of current literature.
- Finding antecedents to the 2008 financial crisis from the Islamic finance perspective.
- A comparative review of stability features within Islamic and conventional finance environments.
- A study on why Islamic finance is not THE LAW in Muslim countries.
- A qualitative investigation on how non-Muslim finance experts working in Islamic financial institutions in the UK perceive Islamic finance practices.
- An exploration of the role of Islamic finance in a global environment.
Potential Hot Areas of Research for MS/PhD Students
- Cultural Effects on the Performance of Non- Profit and For-Profit Microfinance Institutions
- Market Acceptance of a Murabaha-Based Finance Structure within a Social Network of Non-Islamic Small and Medium Enterprise Owners in African Procurement
- Conventional and Islamic Perspective in Accounting: Potential for Alternative Reporting Framework
- Ethical Finance and Islamic Finance: Particularities, Possible Convergence and Potential Development
- A Multi-Agent Smart E-Market Design at Work for Shariah Compliant Islamic Banking
- Debts and Debt-Based Sukuk Related to Risk Shifting Behavior
- Modeling Salam Contract for Profit and Loss Sharing
- The Importance and Role of Sukuk Marketing as an Islamic Bond in the Economy
- The Importance of Zakat in Struggle against Circle of Poverty and Income Redistribution
- Non-Parametric, Unconditional Quantile Estimation of Efficiency in Microfinance Institutions
- Islamic Finance: What Is the Outlook for Italy?
- Shariah Views on the Components of Profit Rate in Al-Murabahah Asset Financing in Malaysian Islamic Bank
- Entrepreneurship Game: Digital ‘Catur Bistari’
- Empirical Assessment to Understand Personal Investor Risk Tolerance in Islamic Banking
- Optimizing differences and similarities between Islamic and Conventional Banking in providing funding, supporting productivity and business models of SMEs in Pakistan’s economy
- Application of FinTech in Islamic Finance
Potential Hot Areas of Research for MS/PhD Students
- Impact of COVID-19 on Pakistani economy and MSMEs & Role of Islamic Financial Institutions
- Role of regulatory organizations i.e. SBP, SECP etc. in Post-COVID 2019
- Roadmap to providing financial assistance and other subsidies through Government & non-banking Financial Institutions for MSMEs: Case of Pakistan
- Conversion and/or transformation of existing Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) into Islamic micro and medium enterprises in Pakistan
- Economic and industry risks associated with launching Islamic financial products for MSMEs in Pakistan
- Regulatory framework and environment for Islamic micro, small and medium financing banks in Pakistan.
Potential Areas of Research for MS/PhD Students
- Pandemic and Islamic Financial Markets
- Flattening the Recession Curve: Role of Islamic Finance
- Islamic Social Finance solutions to fight against pandemic
- Islamic Microfinance to Flatten both Medical and Recession Curve
- Islamic Banks and its connectedness with Counterparts during Pandemic
- Investors Sentiments and Islamic Capital Market Performance during Pandemic
- COVID-19 Outbreak, Social Media and Islamic Market Sentiment
- Empirical Studies of Pandemic: Conventional Vs. Islamic
- Non-linear and Dynamic Effect of Pandemic Crisis
- Contagion effect in Islamic financial system
- Pandemic crisis Vs. Global Financial Crisis: Position of Islamic Finance
- Resilience and strength of Islamic Financial System
- Social Trust, Islamic Economic Values and Pandemic Crisis
- Role of Big Data to enable Islamic Finance to fight against pandemic
- Rise of alternative financial system and Position of Islamic Finance
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