Volker Nienhaus

Volker Nienhaus has a lot of article on Islamic Banking. Some are listed below and some are linked to below

Here is a discussion of a really evil piece of financial engineering

The White Paper discusses the Deutsche Bank's implementation of the SWAP --- Islamic investors can swap Islamic instruments with returns from un-Islamic ones, thereby allowing them to use unIslamic methods.

DiLorenzo explains why this is Un islamic.

Nienhaus discusses claims that Islamic Banking would be safe from financial crises like the recent one.

All of these are research on Islamic Banking which do not involve running any regressions. But they do require TIME, THOUGHT, and EFFORT.