Comparative Analysis of Islamic and Conventional Banks Capital Structure Determinants
Author | : Ben Ukaegbu |
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Release | : 2014 |
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Over the past few years, Islamic banking has grown tremendously in size and expanded beyond Islamic countries and in some countries its presence has become controversial and intriguing. This paper attempts to evaluate the differences in capital structure determinants between Islamic and conventional banks. Our sample was drawn from banks in MENA for the period of 2005 to 2009, comprising of the largest banks in terms of assets within a country. Using a balanced panel data, we classified the population into four samples of: conventional and Islamic banks; tax-paying and non-tax paying economies. The results indicate some similarities between the capital structure of conventional and Islamic banks, in terms of the pecking order theory. However, the results also indicate that conventional banks were larger in size and more leveraged compared with Islamic banks in non-tax paying economies. The results also showed that conventional and Islamic banks in non-tax paying economies were more profitable than those in tax-paying economies. The findings also showed that GDP has a positive influence on leverage for both sets of banks in non-tax paying economies with a negative influence on conventional banks in tax-paying economies. The paper provides additional contribution to the growing literature on capital structure determinants and in particular Islamic banks demonstrating that the proportion of equity in Islamic banks is much higher than in conventional banks with implications to risk.