Risk sharing in finance : the Islamic finance alternative

The financial crisis of 2008 has motivated a number of academics, practitioners and policymakers to question the fundamental stability of the conventional financial system, a system predominantly based on debt financing and leveraging; with the embedded risk that the temptation of leveraging could b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Askari, Hossein (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore : John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd. , c2012
Series:Wiley finance series
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. A brief history of financial crises and proposed reforms
  • 2. Financialization and the decoupling-recoupling hypotheses
  • 3. A brief history of risk-sharing finance
  • 4. Risk sharing and the Islamic finance paradigm
  • 5. Risk sharing in the Islamic financial system: the building blocks
  • 6. Risk sharing and vibrant capital markets in Islamic finance
  • 7. Portfolio theory and assets pricing
  • 8. Complementary role of intermediaries and markets in promoting risk sharing
  • 9. Enhanced asses to finance, social welfare, and economic development under a risk-sharing system
  • 10. The role of institutions and governance in risk sharing
  • 11. Gaps between the theory and practice of Islamic finance
  • 12. Concluding remarks