Arabian Business takes a look back at the recent inaugural DIFCweek 2007.
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DIFCweek 2007
Robert Shiller, Stanley B Resor Professor of Economics, Yale University, warned at DIFC Week ON Saturday November 17 2007 that possible speculative bubbles in stock, real estate and oil markets could cause instability in the global economy.
Professor Steve Levitt, the University of Chicago, said at DIFC Week on saturday November 17 that companies don’t do nearly enough to collect information about how they run in order to improve the way they operate or earn profits.
Professor Dr Malik Muhammad Mahmud Al-Awan, Chief Academic Officer & Dean of the Faculty of the International Center for Islamic Finance in Malaysia on Sunday 18 November 2007 warned that unless Islamic finance can develop a cadre of qualified specialists with both conventional and ethically oriented Islamic banking knowledge, the industry will remain small in comparison to conventional finance.
Per E. Larsson, Chief Executive Officer, Borse Dubai –
Rod Beckstrom, chairman and CEO of TWIKI.NET, and a co-founder of The Environmental Markets Network –
His Excellency Dr. Omar Bin Sulaiman, Governor of the Dubai International Financial Centre – “There will be a clear difference between local, regional and global centres. We will end up with four or five global centres, and we will find out which those will be.
Prof. Malik Muhammed Mahmud Al-Awan –
