Browsing Dissertations for Finance by Title
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Analysing Bollinger Bands in Relation to Energy Spreads
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2010-05)This thesis examines the signalling ability of Bollinger Bands when analysed with energy spreads. The study evaluates the profitability of preliminary trading systems over different spread constructions to identify the ... -
An analysis of important market risk that international bank face
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-02)International banking can be beneficial, especially about developing a stable financial system. However, the international banking system also faces major problems. This paper attempts to identify market risks that exist ... -
An Analysis of Islamic Finance Framework, Authority in Islam and a Need for Paradigm Shift in Islamic Finance
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2014-03)Islamic Finance has always been condemned by some of the influential advocates of interest based economies as a backward looking, less considerate and Shariah driven financial system still characterizing the principles ... -
Analysis of Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) in different economies
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2013-04)The current dissertation is undertaken to analyze technical analysis, its indicators and their profitability and feasibility. This dissertation gives the basics idea of technical analysis and how it works and helps the ... -
An analysis of the Practice and Standard of Corporate Governance in the UAE Banking Industry
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2012)The global economic crisis of 2008, partly triggered by the lack of stringent management oversight of large financial institutions has raised regulatory alarms around the world. To address the challenges arising out of ... -
An application of Data Envelopment Analysis to study the Technical Efficiency of UAE banks in the pre and post crisis period
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2012-04)The rapid growth and development of the UAE banking sector over the past decade has seen increased competitiveness, technological advancements, booming economic conditions as well as a global financial meltdown resulting ... -
Bank-Specific and Macroeconomic Determinants of Islamic Banks Profitability: The Case of GCC Countries
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2020-05)Generally, profitability for a business firm is the primary factor to survive. It helps the organization to grow, compete and remain attractive to investors as well as analysts. The purpose of the present study is to ... -
Benefits and Risks Associated with Financing through Issuance of Sukuk: Evidence from GCC Countries
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2020-10)The purpose of this thesis is to examine the benefits and the risks that are associated with the financing through Sukuk (Islamic bonds). In this regard, highlighting the benefits and limitation that are associated ... -
Capital structure in the Airline Industry – An Empirical study of determinants of capital structure
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-11)In the business environment, decisions that are associated with the capital structure are very critical in nature. The strategic team of an organization is mainly involved in analyzing the appropriate capital structure for ... -
The Case for Real Estate Investment trusts in Dubai
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2008-11)With Real Estate Investment Trusts becoming an increasingly popular means to invest in the real estate market in the developed countries in recent years, it is of interest to this research whether recent legislation in ... -
Changes in the Islamic Banking Industry Pre and Post the Financial Crisis
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2015-11)The banking, investment and lending practices adopted by Islamic banks have recently drawn the attention of many researchers and professionals. This is especially after it emerged that these financial institutions that ... -
Comparative study of modern credit risk assessment methods
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2011-01)The ability to predict bankruptcy is of great value for investors, lenders and other stakeholders of the companies. Moreover as it has been shown by the recent crisis originated in sub-prime market the financial distress ... -
A Comparative study of Technical Efficiency in GCC Islamic Financial Institutions during the Global financial Crisis using Malmquist-Type Data Envelopment analysis
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2013-04)Islamic banking is gaining more importance, especially after the latest global banking crisis. This importance is because Islamic financial Institutions (IFIs) are believed to have not been affected by the year 2007-2008 ... -
A comparison of Market Risk Management Practices of selected Islamic banks in the UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2012-11)Purpose – The paper aims to estimate the Value-at-Risk of stock returns for three major Islamic Banks in UAE and compare VaR results among each banks' stock returns. Design/methodology/approach – The paper calculates VaR ... -
Corporate Governance and the Board efficiency in U.A.E Banks
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2012-05)This study titled CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND THE BOARD EFFICIENCY IN UAE BANKS, and reached many of the results, where it became clear that the governance of banks is the process of organizing and arranging the relationship ... -
Credit Default Swap Spread (CDs) to Predict a Default
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2012-12)This paper investigates the ability of the Credit Default Swap Spread (CDSs) to predict a default. As a result, I started to build a regression and correlation model to examine and check if there is a relation between two ... -
A Critical Analysis of the Role of Dubai International Financial Centre in Making Dubai a Regional Financial Centre
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2012-04)Financial systems play an important role in the economic development of nations. The performance and long-term economic growth and welfare of a country are related to its degree of financial development. The topic of this ... -
Crowdfunding Market in the UAE: Triangulation Study for the Success Factors in the Market
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2022-05)Crowdfunding is considered a new funding type in the UAE financial industry. It started to gain the attention as an emerging market that holds capitalization opportunities for SMEs and start-ups. Research has shown that ... -
Cryptocurrencies Price Forecast and Hedging Capabilities
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2023-02)Cryptocurrency is a new kind of investment recently emerged after being developed using blockchain technology, cryptocurrency price prediction is difficult due to its high volatility as this attracted many investors who ... -
A data envelopment analysis of banks in the UAE A Study of the Relative Operational and Intermediary Efficiency of National Banks of the United Arab Emirates
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2013-06)Similar to all countries that are in the mid development or developing stage, commercial banks play a key role in the economy. Proper analysis of the performance and that the efficiency of these banks is important to all ...