Selected Referred Articles

"Access to Finance as a Critical Proxy for Banking Sector Soundness in Emerging Market Economies: The Case Study of Central Eastern Europe” (with A. Kulathunga), Journal of International Finance Studies, Vol. 12, No.3, (forthcoming), October/November 2012.

“Economic Development Conditions: A Survey of the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC)"- BOOK CHAPTER (with H. Askari) in Islamic Finance, (Iqbal, Zamir, editor) World Bank Group, World Bank-IMF Publication, Washington DC (forthcoming), Summer 2012.

"National Security and Financial Crisis”, Florida International University College of Law, the FIU Law Review and the Federalist Society (forthcoming) Sumer 2012.

"Explaining the Returns of Active Currency Managers (For Public Investors)” (with S. Nasypbek) Bank of International Settlements (BIS) Public Investors Reports on Portfolio And Risk Management For Central Banks And Sovereign Wealth Funds, Bank of International Settlements (BIS) Papers No. 58, Basel, Switzerland, October 2011. 

"Corruption: The View From The Persian Gulf" (with H. Askari and N. Arfaa), Global Economy Journal, Vol. 11: Issue 3, Fall 2011.

"Globalization Of Islamic Finance: Myth Or Reality?" (with F. Perry), International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, Vol. 1, No.14, Fall 2011.

“FDI, Technology Spillovers, Growth, and Income Inequality: A Selective Survey” (with D. Clark, J. Highfill, and J. Campino) Global Economy Journal, Vol. 11: Issue 2, Sum 2011.

“Measuring The Impact Of Globalization On Corporate Governance In Emerging Markets”, (with F. Perry), European Journal of Management, Vol. II, Issue 1, June 2011.

“Using Market Concentration in the Banking Sector as a Key Indicator for a Financial Soundness Index: A Case Study of Germany, France, Poland, Hungary, Albania, and Serbia”, (with A.Kulathunga), Journal of International Finance and Economics, Vol. II, no. 1, June 2011.

“Explaining the Returns of Active Currency Managers For Public Investors” (with S. Nasypbek) Bank of International Settlements (BIS) Public Investors Reports, Nov 2010.

"The Economic IslamicityIndex (EI)" Global Economy Journal, Vol 10, Issue 3, Fall 2010.

“Islamicity Index (I2): How Islamic Are Islamic Countries?” Global Economy Journal, Vol. 11, Issue 2, May 2010.

“Obama Administration And The U.S. Financial Crisis”. Global Economy Journal, Vol. 10 : Iss. 1, Article 6, Spring 2010.

“Globalization of Islamic Finance Law”. Wisconsin International Law Journal, Vol 25, No. 4, Winter 2008 (referred) (35 pages).

“The Transformation of European Corporate Governance: A Case of Germany and France” (with F. Perry), Journal of Corporate Ownership and Control, Vol. 5 June 2008.

“Can Financial Institutional Investor’s Legally Safeguard American Stockholders?” NYU Journal of Law and Business, NYU Law School, Summer 2006 (46 pages).

“Globalization and Effects on the Convergence Of Corporate Governance Systems” Journal of Global Business, Vo. 17, No. 33, Spring 2006, (with F. Perry) (31 pages).

“Globalization of Boardrooms: The Convergence of Global Corporate Governance” (with F. Perry). Global Economy Journal IT&FA Conference Proceedings, Summer 2006 (20 pages).

“Are New Rules Of Law Needed For U.S. Corporate Governance?” International Business Law Journal, Vol. 6, Fall 2004 (78 pages). 

“Faut-il adopter de nouvelles règles de droit en matiere de gouvernance des des entreprises aux Etats-Unis?”La Revue de Droit des Affaires Internationales / RDAI, Numéro 6., de l'année 2004 (numérotage des pages 78).

“American Hegemony: If Not Us Then Who?”, Connecticut Journal of International Law, Vol. 19, No. 2, University of Connecticut Law School, Hartford, Connecticut, Spring 2004 (24 pages).

“Trucking Laws In Mexico And Changes After NAFTA: A Paradigm For The FTAA?”, (with F. Perry), Transportation Law Journal, Vol. 31, 2 Spring 2004 (59 pages). [Journal ranked in top 10% of most-cited legal periodicals in U.S. and selected non-U.S.]

“The Global Convergence Of Corporate Governance Systems: Is It Really Happening?” ” (with F. Perry), Journal of Current Research in Global Business, Fall 2004.

“The Changing European Corporate Governance Landscape”, Economic Review: Europa Forum, Budapest University of Science, Spring 2004. [The journal is sponsored by the EU Commission.]

"Corporate Governance Developments in the European Union and Their Impact on Competitiveness," Competitiveness Forum, Fall 2003.

“Euro Changeover Costs for International Banks”, in The Global Economy At The Turn of the Century, (editors) Meric Gulser and Ilhan Gulser, London: Elsevier Science, Ltd., 2000.

“Central and East European Trade Reorientation and FDI Flows: Preparation for EU Membership”, The International Trade Journal, (with G.P. Lauter), Summer 1999.

“The Euro's Impact On The European Union Financial Markets And Banks” , in Research in International Business and Finance, Volume XIV, (pp. 211-243), 1999.

“The Euro as a Global Investment Currency” in Banking in the European Union, (editor) Irene Finel-Honnigman (Dept. of Commerce), New York: JAI Press, 1999.

“The EU Expansion to Baltic, Central Europe, and Mediterranean Regions”, Business and The Contemporary World, Vol. X(3), 487-510, (with G.P. Lauter), Summer/Fall 1998.

“The Euro as a Global Trade Currency”, International Trade Journal, Vol. XII, No.1. pp.20. Spring 1998.

“The EMU and its Euro: Promise and Reality”, Business and The Contemporary World, (with H. Askari), September 1997.

“The Expansion of the European Union to the East: Issues and Problems”, Europa Forum, Budapest: The Society for an Integrated Europe, (with G.P. Lauter), [The journal is sponsored by the EU Commission.] Fall 1997.

“The Impact of the Euro on the U.S. Dollar and the Japanese Yen as Major International Trade, Investment and Reserve Currencies”, in Khosrow Fatemi (ed), International Business in the New Millennium, Vol.1., Laredo, Texas A&M International University, 1997. 

"Prospects for EMU in the Aftermath of the ERM Crisis", in, Contemporary Working Papers in International Trade and Finance, Anthony Scaperlanda (ed), 1995.

"Japan in the 1990's and Beyond: An Economy in Transition." The American Asian Review. Vol.XII, No.3, Fall 1994.

"The Dilemmas of European Monetary Integration" in International Finance in the New World Order; edited Peter Gray and Sandra Richard. New York: Pergamon Press, 1994.

"EuroFed, Back to the Future", Journal of Commerce, June 23, 1991.

"Blueprint for a European Central Bank", Journal of Commerce, January 29, 1991.

Sections in OECD Study –Third World Debt and Financial Innovations; A Case of Chile & Mexico by Hossein Askari; OECD Publications, Paris, 1991.

"Japanese Financial Deregulation" in the second edition of the book The Internationalization of the Japanese Economy by Peter Lauter and C. Higashi; 1990.