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Dependence structure between sukuk (Islamic bonds) and stock market conditions: An empirical analysis with Archimedean copulas
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Dependence structure between sukuk (Islamic bonds) and stock market conditions: An empirical analysis with Archimedean copulas

Nader Naifar, Shawkat Hammoudeh and Mohamed S. Al dohaiman
Journal of international financial markets, institutions & money, v 44, pp 148-165
Sep 2016

Abstract

Archimedean copula Conditional volatility Dependence structure Islamic finance Non-linear analysis Sukuk
•We investigate dependence structure between country sukuk yields and stock market conditions.•We consider the three largest country sukuk markets in the world (Malaysia, S. Arabia and UAE).•We consider several Archimedean copula models with different tail dependence structures.•Sukuk indices exhibit significant dependence only with the volatility of the stock markets.•The dependence structure is asymmetric and oriented toward the upper side for Malaysia and UAE. We investigate the dependence structure between major local sukuk (Islamic bonds) yields in three Muslim countries and various stock market conditions as represented by national, regional and global stock market returns and conditional volatility. We consider the three largest country sukuk markets in the world which are for Malaysia, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, as well as their stock markets, the global Islamic stock index as the global representative of faith-based investing, the S&P index for Asia as the proxy for the regional stock market and the S&P 500 index as the global stock factor. We use the Archimedean copula models: Gumbel, Clayton, Frank and AMH which have different tail dependence structures. The results show that the three largest country sukuk indices exhibit significant dependence but only with the volatility of the considered stock markets. Moreover, the dependence structure between the local sukuk yields and the various stock markets’ volatility is asymmetric and oriented toward the upper side for Malaysia and United Arab Emirates, while it has a symmetric dependence for the Saudi Arabian market. We also find that the country sukuk yields are more sensitive to the global conventional stock market rather than to the global Islamic, regional and local stock markets.

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