Al-Wesabi, Hamid A. H. and Ahmad, Nor Hayati (2013) Credit risk of Islamic banks in GCC countries. The International Journal of Banking and Finance, 10 (2). pp. 111-136. ISSN 1617-722

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Abstract

This paper is about factors affecting credit risk of Islamic banks in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries using website data covering 25 Islamic banks over 2006 to 2010. This study uses non-performing loans as a proxy for credit risk, which is the dependent variable with three macro-economic, and six firm-specific independent variables.We find income is significantly negatively related to credit risk, which is consistent with findings in other countries about credit risk.Some firm-specific variables such as leverage, liquidity are also relevant variables for credit risk, which results are also consistent with bank behavior reported in other studies. Credit risk is also broadly affected by both macro and firm-specific factors as found in other regions. Inflation and interest rates do not appear to be relevant. These results would suggest non-performing loan is broadly correlated with factors identified in other studies of banks.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Creadit risk, Risk management, Islamic banks, Gulf countries, Non-performing loans
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Divisions:	School of Economics, Finance & Banking
Depositing User:	Prof. Dr. Nor Hayati Ahmad
Date Deposited:	31 Mar 2014 08:32
Last Modified:	31 May 2016 03:36
URI:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/9558

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