Contagion risk: Cases of Islamic and emerging market banks
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management
Publisher
Emerald
School
School of Business and Law
RAS ID
35536
Abstract
Purpose:
Globally influential Islamic banks from the Middle East and Southeast Asia carry voluminous correspondence banking with banks from China and India, leading to potential spillover effect of contagion among the banks from these regions. This study aims to investigate the Islamic banks systemic risk contagion with major banks from China and India.
Design/methodology/approach:
Having the option pricing theory in the backdrop, the authors calculated three different distance to risk measurements (default, insolvency and capital). The authors have included top six listed globally influential Islamic banks, top seven Indian banks and top eight Chinese banks based on their net asset value. They then measured the banks’ extreme shocks based on the extreme value theory by using the logistic regression model. These extreme shocks helped the authors to map the spillover among the selected banks from multiple regions.
Findings:
The authors have found strong evidences of directional risk spillover among the banks in this sample. Islamic banks are receiving a significant risk spillover from the other sample banks but transmitting less toward the other banks from India and China. Hence, there is strong one-directional risk contagion toward the Islamic banks in the study sample.
Practical implications:
This research would be particularly useful to the regulators and bankers from emerging and Islamic markets to understand the conniving nature of the crisis by effectively mapping the source, destination and implementation of the shock transmission mechanism of the potential financial contagion.
Originality/value:
Even though the corresponding banking among the top Islamic banks from the Middle East and Southeast Asian countries, and banks from India and China, is on the rise, the assessment of risk among these banks has been limited. In particular, the authors extended on the extreme value theory to focus on the wider impact of spillover, including significant direction of contagion from non-Islamic banks to Islamic banks.
DOI
10.1108/IMEFM-11-2020-0555
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Yoon, D. E., Choudhury, T., Saha, A. K., & Rashid, M. (2022). Contagion risk: Cases of Islamic and emerging market banks. International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management, 15(3).
https://doi.org/10.1108/IMEFM-11-2020-0555