Pejman Abedifar

University of St Andrews - School of Management

Lecturer in Banking & Finance

The Gateway, North Haugh

St Andrews, Fife KY16 9RJ

United Kingdom

Khatam University - Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies

Tehran

Iran

Khatam University

Tehran

Iran

  • University of St Andrews - School of Management

  • Khatam University - Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies

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Risk in Islamic Banking

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Risk in Islamic Banking

LAPE Working Paper
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 18 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2012
Pejman Abedifar, Philip Molyneux, Philip Molyneux and Amine Tarazi
University of St Andrews - School of Management, University of SharjahUniversity of Sharjah - College of Business Administration and University of Limoges - Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Prospectives Économiques (LAPE)
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Islamic banking, Islaminc Finance, Bank risk, credit risk, stability, insolvency, Zscore

Risk in Islamic Banking

Review of Finance, Forthcoming
Posted: 12 Oct 2012
Pejman Abedifar, Philip Molyneux, Philip Molyneux and Amine Tarazi
University of St Andrews - School of Management, University of SharjahUniversity of Sharjah - College of Business Administration and University of Limoges - Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Prospectives Économiques (LAPE)

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Islamic banking, Islamic finance, bank risk, credit risk, stability, insolvency, Zscore, rent-seeking

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Non-Interest Income and Bank Lending

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 15 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2017
Pejman Abedifar, Philip Molyneux, Philip Molyneux and Amine Tarazi
University of St Andrews - School of Management, University of SharjahUniversity of Sharjah - College of Business Administration and University of Limoges - Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Prospectives Économiques (LAPE)
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Non-interest Income, Fiduciary, Credit Risk, Spread, Profit Complementarities

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Lending, the Poor & Islamic Scripture: Islamic Finance versus Welfare Islam

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 13 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2018
Pejman Abedifar
University of St Andrews - School of Management
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Islamic Finance; Economics of Religion; Riba

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Formalism versus Purposivism in Islamic Jurisprudence: The Case of Islamic Finance Law

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 07 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2022
Pejman Abedifar
University of St Andrews - School of Management
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Islamic Finance Law; Maqāsid al-Sharī’ah; Gharar; Maysir

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Finance-Growth Nexus and Dual-Banking Systems: Relative Importance of Islamic Banks

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 08 Jun 2015
Pejman Abedifar, Iftekhar Hasan and Amine Tarazi
University of St Andrews - School of Management, Fordham University and University of Limoges - Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Prospectives Économiques (LAPE)
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Banking System Structure, Financial Development, Finance-Growth Nexus, Islamic Banking

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Flood, Farms and Credit: The Role of Branch Banking in the Era of Climate Change

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 22-52
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 16 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2023
Pejman Abedifar, Seyed Javad Kashizadeh and Steven Ongena
University of St Andrews - School of Management, Khatam University - Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies and University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance
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branch, Relationship lending, Fintech, Climate change, Agricultural loans

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The Sale of Failed Banks: The Characteristics of Acquirers – As Well as of the Acquired – Matter

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 14 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 27 Dec 2022
Pejman Abedifar, Amine Tarazi, Lawrence J. White and Lawrence J. White
University of St Andrews - School of Management, University of Limoges - Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Prospectives Économiques (LAPE) and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Department of EconomicsStern School of Business, New York University
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Bank failures, Resolution, FDIC

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How Informative Are Stock Prices of Islamic Banks?

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 16 Dec 2018
Pejman Abedifar, Kais Bouslah, Shatha Hashem, Liang Song and Liang Song
University of St Andrews - School of Management, University of St Andrews, University of Pavia, Department of Economics and Management Sciences and University of Massachusetts Dartmouthaffiliation not provided to SSRN
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Stock Return Non-Synchronicity; Islamic Banking; Stock Illiquidity; Future Earnings Prediction Ability

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Firm Opacity and Islamic Securities Issuance

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 12 Jun 2020
Sara Al Balooshi, Maria Chiara Iannino and Pejman Abedifar
University of Bahrain, University of St Andrews and University of St Andrews - School of Management
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Corporate Capital Structure, Opacity, Islamic Finance, Sukuk, Emerging Markets, Multilevel Multinomial Logistic Model

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Islamic Securities in Corporate Financial Hierarchy

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 Aug 2020
Sara Al Balooshi, Maria Chiara Iannino and Pejman Abedifar
University of Bahrain, University of St Andrews and University of St Andrews - School of Management
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Corporate Capital Structure, Pecking Order, Islamic Finance, Sukuk

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Board Gender Diversity, Risk-taking and Performance: Evidence from Dual Banking Systems

Abdul-Majid, M., Saal, D., Battisti, G., 2010. Efficiency in Islamic and conventional banking: an international comparison. Journal of Productivity Analysis34(1), 25–43. Abedifar, P., Molyneux, P., &Tarazi, A. (2013). Risk in Islamic banking. Review of Finance, 17(6), 2035-2096. Adams, R. B.,
Posted: 02 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2020
Mushtaq Hussain Khan, Ahmad Fraz, Arshad Hasan and Pejman Abedifar
Capital University of Science & Technology, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Capital University of Science and Technology and University of St Andrews - School of Management

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Bank performance, Female directorship, Gender diversity, Islamic banking

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Heterogeneous Market Structure and Systemic Risk: Evidence from Dual Banking Systems

Posted: 03 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2019
Pejman Abedifar, Paolo Giudici and Shatha Hashem
University of St Andrews - School of Management, University of Pavia and University of Pavia, Department of Economics and Management Sciences

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Graphical network models, Islamic banking, Partial correlations, Systemic risk Measures

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Islamic Banking and Finance: Recent Empirical Literature and Directions for Future Research

Journal of Economic Surveys, Forthcoming
Posted: 08 Jun 2015
Pejman Abedifar, Philip Molyneux, Philip Molyneux, Muhammed Shahid Ebrahim and Amine Tarazi
University of St Andrews - School of Management, University of SharjahUniversity of Sharjah - College of Business Administration, Durham Business School and University of Limoges - Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Prospectives Économiques (LAPE)

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Islamic Banking, Islamic Finance