While operating side-by-side with conventional banks, the systemic risk profile of Islamic banks could be different due to their unique business model. Using a sample of ten countries with dual-banking systems, where the Islamic banking sector is considered systemically important, this paper...

Being the health pandemic with the highest impact on the global financial market, the recent COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant risk transmissions across stock markets. Although an increasing number of studies have examined the effects of the pandemic on financial markets, we provide novel...

We analyse the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on spillover between conventional and Islamic stock and bond markets. We further analyse comparatively whether gold, oil, and Bitcoin prices, VIX and EPU index affect the relationships between these markets during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results...

This study employs sample t-tests and panel pooled OLS regression to investigate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on Islamic versus conventional stock markets returns. The study uses daily data from 15 countries over the period of September 01, 2019-April 30, 2020, which covers two main periods...