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Financial uncertainty valuation: doesShariahcompliant screening matter?

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  • Fatma Alahouel
  • Nadia Loukil

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Purpose - This paper aims to investigate the financial uncertainty vary according to different financial assets type: conventional and Islamic. Design/methodology/approach - Common factors are related to risk or known information. For this, the authors use general dynamic factor model to extract common variation between both types of indexes. Then they calculate stochastic volatility for each idiosyncratic component. They also carry out the study on three different family indexes respectively, Dow Jones, S&P and MSCI indexes, for the period going from January 1, 2008 to June 30, 2018. Through a comparison analysis with uncertainty index designed for conventional assets, the authors examine the similarity between the two indexes via mean, median and variance tests. They decrypt the interrelation between them by using OLS linear regression, vector autoregressive model. Findings - The findings show that Islamic assets uncertainty is different from conventional uncertainty level. This difference can be due to theShariahscreening and the prohibition of gharar. The main findings suggest that Islamic financial uncertainty is lower than conventional one. The OLS results prove that conventional financial uncertainties have no impact on their Islamic counterparts. In addition, Islamic financial uncertainty appears to have no significant influence on conventional one exception for Dow Jones pair. Overall, the findings support the decoupling hypothesis in term of uncertainty only for SP and MSCI indexes. Practical implications - Risk averse investors can find their claim inShariah-compliant assets, as it offers a low level of financial uncertainty. A portfolio manager may benefit from the long run non-association in uncertainty between Islamic and conventional assets especially in time of crisis. Originality/value - In this work, the authors measured financial uncertainty differently and take into account the specific features of each index type to improve the results quality.

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  • Fatma Alahouel & Nadia Loukil, 2020. "Financial uncertainty valuation: doesShariahcompliant screening matter?," International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 14(1), pages 57-76, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:imefmp:imefm-04-2019-0137
    DOI: 10.1108/IMEFM-04-2019-0137
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