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Impact of Asymmetric Information in Islamic Financial contract: An Empirical Analysis

European Journal of Islamic Finance

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Title Impact of Asymmetric Information in Islamic Financial contract: An Empirical Analysis
 
Creator Zafar, Sajjad Hussain
Siddiqui, Danish A
 
Subject asymmetric information, Islamic financial contracts, Istisna, Murabah, Islamic bank, Pakistan
 
Description A primary source of asymmetric information arises from banks’ uncertainty about borrowers’Creditworthiness. This can generate two types of barriers to efficient credit allocation in the loan market: ad-verse selection in the likelihood of repayment and moral hazard in the riskiness of firms’ business decisions, also affecting repayment. This study investigated the consequences of asymmetric information on Islamic financial contracts in the Pakistani market for small and medium enterprise (SME) business lines of credit. Islamic bank’s main financial contracts were discuss the two of them which are Istisna and Murabah .The methods of’ T test’ was conducted to ascertain the difference in means of both forms of financing, whereas Multiple Regression Analysis using panel data to assess the relationship of critical variables with Disbursed amount, profit rate, spread, tenor. Data of three year i.e. from 2016 to2018 of 35 firms, with 105 number of observations having istisna and murabah contract, were taken. The results suggested that both the means of murabah and istisna financing are significantly different in major performance indicators, implicating companies that have taken these two financing have performed differently. Secondly, in most of the ratio that mattered like efficiency and profitability, murabah based financing have yielded more efficient results and better performed as compared to istisna.
 
Publisher European Journal of Islamic Finance
European Journal of Islamic Finance
 
Contributor Dr. Danish Ahmed Siddiqui Associate Professor Karachi University Business School, University of Karachi, Pakistan daanish79@hotmail.com
 
Date 2019-12-27
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/EJIF/article/view/3301
10.13135/2421-2172/3301
http://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/EJIF/article/download/3301/pdf
 
Source European Journal of Islamic Finance; No 14 (2019): EJIF - European Journal of Islamic Finance, 14, 2019
European Journal of Islamic Finance; No 14 (2019): EJIF - European Journal of Islamic Finance, 14, 2019
2421-2172
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/EJIF/article/view/3301/pdf
 
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