Conventional versus Islamic Private Equity
By Mohamed Ali Chatti and Ouidad Yousfi
There are some similarities between Islamic and conventional PE, like for example the active participation, the quick exit...
From A Niche Market To The Mainstream: What Has Driven Islamic Banking Growth?
By Patrick Imam and Kangni Kpodar
Despite the rapid growth in Islamic banking during the past decade, challenges remain, pointing to the need for further...
The Believers Are But A Single Brotherhood1: Political Islam In Post-Mubarak Egypt
By Joseph Yackley
The fall of Mubarak and the rise of political Islam illustrate the hidden power of social change. To understand how Egypt’s Islamists...
Changes at the top in Chinese Banking
By Violaine Cousin
At the end of October 2011, the heads of the three financial sector regulators were rotated. It is time to ask what...
The New Scramble for Africa
By Pádraig Carmody
Something has certainly changed in the intervening years in Africa, and in its relations with the outside world, even if excessive pessimism...
An Inquiry into Why America Spends While the World Saves
By Sheldon Garon
Recently the issue of saving has become maybe too exciting. Despite a booming economy, household saving rates sank to near-zero levels by...
A Comment on “The American Mortgage System: Crisis and Reform”
By Marvin M. Smith, Anthony Orlando, and Susan Wachter
“If price discovery continues to be unattainable in both the subprime, structured CDO and lower quality...
Emerging Markets are Re-Shaping the Global Economy, But Also Shaking It
By George Magnus
From global tourism to manufactured products, and from industrial processes to modern technologies order, the re-convergence of emerging markets and their economic...
The Causes of the Banking Crises of the 1920’s
By Simon D. Norton
The credit crunch of 2007-2008 shares many similarities in terms of causes with the Depression Era and wave of bank failures...
Rethinking Global Financial Governance Reform
By Daniel D. Bradlow
The limited success over the past few years in reforming global financial governance means that there is a need to reassess...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth
By Danny Leipziger
China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives?
China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...
