Emerging Markets in a Shifting Global Financial Architecture: The Case of Islamic Securitization in the Gulf Region

Geography Compass

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 340-350

  Bassens, David ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; FINANCIAL CRISIS; GLOBAL ECONOMY; INVESTMENT; MARKET DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84862667489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2012.00500.x     Document Type: Review

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