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Interest rate volatility and financing of Islamic banks

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  • Muhammad Nouman
  • Maria Hashim
  • Vanina Adoriana Trifan
  • Adina Eleonora Spinu
  • Muhammad Fahad Siddiqi
  • Farman Ullah Khan

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Despite a direct ban on charging interest, interest-based benchmarks are used as a pricing reference by a majority of Islamic banks, due in part to the absence of stable and widely- published alternatives. Benchmarking interest rate exposes Islamic banks to the problems of conventional banks, particularly the interest rate risk. Against this backdrop, the present study empirically examines the dynamic linkage between the interest rate volatility and the financing of Islamic banks. The empirical analysis is carried using evidence from the Islamic banking industry of Pakistan during the time period 2006–2020. The multivariate Johansen and Jusiles Co-integration test and Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) are used as the baseline econometric models. Moreover, the DCC-GARCH model is employed for robustness and ensuring the consistency of results. The results indicate that a significant long-term and short-term relationship exists between the interest rate volatility and the financing of Islamic banking industry providing significant evidence for co-movements and convergence. These findings suggest that paradoxical as it may seem, the financing of Islamic banks operating within a dual banking system is subject to interest rate risk, mainly due to benchmarking interest rate, which in-turn makes Islamic banks vulnerable to the rate of return risk and withdrawal risk. Moreover, corporate financing, in particular, is more vulnerable to interest rate risk.

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  • Muhammad Nouman & Maria Hashim & Vanina Adoriana Trifan & Adina Eleonora Spinu & Muhammad Fahad Siddiqi & Farman Ullah Khan, 2022. "Interest rate volatility and financing of Islamic banks," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(7), pages 1-21, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0268906
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268906
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